Gnarled Tree Quotes

#1. Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.

Brian Froud

#2. An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

Ming-Dao Deng

#3. Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

#4. At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

James Gray

#5. A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Dennis Rodman

#7. [T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#8. If men do not feed you, ravens shall; and if earth yields not wheat, heaven shall drop with manna.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

Emile Zola

#10. Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Joseph Henry

#11. It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Lynda Obst

#12. Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind ... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men
thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall
yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#13. Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

#14. Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!

John C. Reilly

#15. Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks,

Elizabeth Alexander

#16. The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

Robert H. Schuller

#17. I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

Derrick Rose

#18. Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

Shannon Miller

#19. Remove yourself, sir!

David McCullough

#20. Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

Tarja Halonen

#21. George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give.

Carl Rakosi