Almond Tree Quotes

#1. Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden
an almond tree or an oil well?

Jean Giraudoux

#2. I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

Errol Flynn

#4. With this life, I give you courage. You will know how to use it.

Erin Hunter

#5. Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door.
Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.

Liz Kessler

#6. Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Susannah Grant

#7. I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#8. I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

David Almond

#9. February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

Katherine Paterson

#10. The feet bound by leather souls feel not the humbleness of the sod. They carry the person without knowing the terrain below upon which they frequent trod.

Timothy W. Tron

#11. We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

J.B. Priestley

#12. God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Dan Brown

#13. Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Salma Hayek

#14. Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

Jared Diamond

#15. We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

El Lissitzky

#16. As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first time since the second she was taken away from me, I finally know what forgiveness feels like.

Colleen Hoover

#17. We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them.

Taylor Nadeau

#18. Every so many years, he went to England to visit - judging by the photographs he showed us - a sundial and some oak trees.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#20. I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

Sue Perkins

#21. Good books makes good life.

Lailah Gifty Akita