Chestnut Tree Quotes

#1. I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Chrissy Teigen

#2. What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.

Marcel Proust

#3. It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.

Peter Watts

#4. If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.

Susan Freinkel

#5. I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

Pharrell Williams

#6. Weave for the mighty chestnut
A tributary crown
Of autumn leaves, the brightest then
When autumn leaves are brown
Hang up his bridle on the wall,
His saddle on the tree,
Till time shall bring some racing king
Worthy to wear as he!

William Nack

#7. Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).

Bob Mayer

#8. Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.

George Orwell

#9. When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

Florence Welch

#10. The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

E. Nesbit

#11. Communication implies communing, having a shared experience with another, not "talking at" or "talking down to" someone.

Sharon Gannon

#12. Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#13. Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won't get on board.

Molly Ringle

#14. Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

John Dryden

#15. The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

James Q. Wilson

#16. Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

Terence McKenna

#17. It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

Muriel Spark

#18. out of each pain which we dont mention

a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us

out of each hope which we cherish astar arises

and move unattainable in front of us

Vasko Popa

#19. I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

Gemma Files

#20. Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping