Old Men Plant Trees Quotes

#1. Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

#2. Therefore, the skillful commander imposes his will on the enemy by making the enemy come to him instead of being brought to the enemy.

Sun Tzu

#3. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.

Alice Cooper

#4. What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew

Eamon

#5. When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.

John Oates

#6. Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

Baha'u'llah

#7. I didn't choose to be an actress.

Francesca Annis

#8. In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

Lucinda Williams

#9. When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

Laird Hamilton

#10. Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Sir John Davies

#11. Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

Amity Gaige

#13. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor

#14. When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.

Marisa De Los Santos

#15. The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. 'You're always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.

Richelle Mead

#16. Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham

Walter Brueggemann

#17. I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Michael Redd