Maple Tree Sayings

#1. Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard

#2. Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.

Terry Teachout

#3. The maple tree plays a meaningful role in the historical development of Canada. It contributes to wood products, sustains the maple sugar industry, and beautifies the landscape.

Planet Collection

#4. The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad monotonous song. "Summer is over and gone, over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying." A little maple tree heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.

E.B. White

#5. You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face.
Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree.

Rick Riordan

#6. It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.

Cameron Conaway

#7. Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.

Christopher Fowler

#9. It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.

E. Lockhart

#10. Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#11. When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

William C. Bryant

#12. Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.

Ken Petti

#13. He leans forward, his lips an inch from mine. And very deeply, very huskily, he whispers, "What do you want, Maximoff?

Krista Ritchie

#14. I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

Julia Sawalha

#15. We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

Eric Schneiderman

#16. We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

Winona LaDuke

#17. Existence already accepts you - that's why you are here. Otherwise you would not be. This is my basic teaching to you. Existence already accepts you. You do not have to earn it, you are already worthy. Relax, enjoy the way nature has made you.

Osho

#18. I don't need to Google myself.

Nicki Minaj

#19. Happiness is not outside ourselves.

Leo Babauta

#20. I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

Claire Tomalin

#21. Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.

Shashi Tharoor