Beech Quotes

#1. The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

Thomas Starr King

#2. If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Gustav Klimt

#3. The beech leaves surged and shimmered in the wind. Far below, a vixen paused to stare up, then melted away. Stars burned tiny holes in the twilight and then a pale moon traced a slow silver arc through the sky.

Laline Paull

#4. To possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.

Virginia Woolf

#5. She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Patricia C. Wrede

#6. There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

Robert Bridges

#7. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.

Thomas Gray

#8. Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Stanley Baldwin

#9. Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.

Barbara Pym

#10. What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.

John Grisham

#11. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

William Blake

#12. It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.

Phillips Brooks

#13. And you have eyes the colour of beech leaves in October. Yet no one is ever allowed to look into them.

Kate Chopin

#14. The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Jay Woodman

#16. Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

Susan Lendroth

#17. Now of old the name of that forest was Greenwood the Great, and its wide halls and aisles were the haunt of many beasts and of birds of bright song; and there was the realm of King Thranduil under the oak and the beech.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Jane Goodall

#19. A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and the bracken and wait quietly for death.

Barbara Pym

#20. I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty.

Gian Kumar

#22. She was looking good, too. Had a dress on and it fit her the way a dress ought to fit every woman in the world.

Anonymous

#23. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Chester W. Nimitz

#24. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

#25. Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

Mark Twain

#26. If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Arno Allan Penzias

#27. I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother.

Roald Dahl

#28. 'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

Robert Osborne

#29. Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.

Ron Kaufman

#30. Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

#31. Others may dislike you because
you are different but somebody loves you because you are different

Jenneive M. Johnson

#32. There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

Vironika Tugaleva

#33. During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alan Bradley

#34. I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

Ben Affleck