Fir Tree Quotes

#1. Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

Oscar Wilde

#4. The fir tree had grown a punk haircut, as it did every summer.

Nancy Adams

#5. A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

Heinrich Heine

#6. Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

George Gordon Byron

#8. There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert

#9. The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives .

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#10. When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

Delphine Arnault

#11. Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.

Leon M. Lederman

#12. I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

Lee Trevino

#13. Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all.

Mason Cooley

#14. Her screams, as always, were silent.

Annette Gisby

#15. If you don't make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your "metabolic vampires" can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen and solidify.

Barbara Oakley

#16. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Tahir Shah

#17. December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Phil Donahue

#18. Took him to a rink. Andy had watched the other skaters,

Jennifer Weiner

#19. AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#20. I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

#21. Christianity and communism cannot be reconciled;
they are opposing systems.

Frederick Nymeyer

#22. A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

Marc Bekoff