Canopied Trees Quotes

#1. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Nick Hanauer

#2. Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Love is a compelling force

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Fu*k!"
"Anytime, darling," he yelled up to her. "Just get your cute ass back down here and I'll get straight to work on that.

Lily Graison

#5. When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

Eleanor Catton

#6. Till the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, most American men wore hats to work. What happened? Did our guys - suddenly scouting overhead for worse Sunday raids - come to fear their hatbrims' interference?

Allan Gurganus

#7. And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if fingertips, like cut emeralds or fresh olives, were stroking the palm of my hand.

Jean Lorrain

#8. The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

Lee Daniels