Barren Tree Quotes

#1. The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

Lauren Willig

#2. Because I long to feel nothing. I want to be frozen inside. I want the icy cold to blow directly on my heart.

Kathryn Stockett

#3. No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.

Melanie Fair

#4. Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Albert Schweitzer

#5. I'm in love with you."
"Good grief." She kept walking.

Tahereh Mafi

#6. Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Erica Jong

#7. Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

John Keats

#8. A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.

D.J. Niko

#10. Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Edwin Louis Cole

#11. I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].

Lucas Cruikshank

#12. The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their location within an alcove of a cliff made all of it more remarkable. It was such an unexpected place for something so beautiful, like an oasis in the middle of a barren desert.

Katie Lynn Johnson

#13. God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#14. A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

Heinrich Heine

#15. True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton