Bending Tree Quotes

#1. Though storms blow and the earth shake
Limber trees may bend, but the stiff will break."

Chief Bending Tree (Mystical Mountain Magic)

Guy Brooke

#2. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

#3. I never was in the Nation of Islam ... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

Ice Cube

#4. You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

Chris Pronger

#5. You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

Richard Manuel

#7. Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ...

James Russell Lowell

#8. There are no backwaters where things can breed - our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We've arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.

William Gibson

#9. Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love ...

Thomas Merton

#10. You can't trust anybody with power.

Newt Gingrich