Magnolia Tree Quotes

#1. Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.

Nancy B. Brewer

#2. I stand there at the corner, known
by the equinox and knowing
nothing, exposed by the alethic
light of those apples,
that fearless crocus,
the magnolia tree, its chandelier
of tears.

Warren Heiti

#3. I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.

Meghan Daum

#4. My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

JohnA Passaro

#5. What were you saying about the way I smell?" "It's like hot testosterone on a fuckin' cracker, sprinkled with cinnamon." ~Mariss

Tyffani Clark Kemp

#6. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans De Waal

#7. Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.

Robert M. Hensel

#8. Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

Craig Groeschel

#9. There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

#10. I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

M. J. Hyland

#11. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. At different times in your life, your body needs different things.

Jessy Schram

#13. I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.

Joe Meno

#14. Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Quincy Jones

#15. For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.

Rebecca MacKinnon