Birch Tree Quotes

#1. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost

#2. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Geri Halliwell

#3. Once, I took the penny whistle
you gave me and discovered a spot
by the roaring falls where I could play
as loud as I wanted.
I lay in the bifurcated trunk
of a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked
through applauding leaves, high overhead.

Kristen Henderson

#4. Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal, upright self.
could that happen to me ?

Carrie Jones

#5. The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
(All find safety in the tomb.)
Nor can he hide in holy black
The heron's hunch upon his back,
But a birch-tree stood my Jack ...

William Butler Yeats

#6. One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Paul Muldoon

#7. No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.

Noel Gallagher

#8. The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

James Dickey

#9. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Joyce Cary

#11. Its composure thoroughly disrupted, the little treelet, the picture of arboreal distress, let its branches droop a little, and its green birch leaves fluttered anxiously.

Lev Grossman

#12. I was the son of the man who had ruined everything.

Knausgaard, Karl Ove

#13. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

David Rubenstein

#15. For the piece of gold lies 3 feet deep, but your hole is only 2 feet steep, so dig on my friend, there's no time to weep. You've only a foot to go.....

Jonah Berger

#16. As long as we have life, we keep love and hope alive.

Debasish Mridha

#17. To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Louise Erdrich

#18. To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

Louise Erdrich

#19. People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

Al Sharpton

#20. Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure.

Pedro Okoro

#21. Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.

Jerry Bridges

#22. 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

#23. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

#24. Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.

Jayne Lockwood

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Graham Tippett