Quotes About A Weeping Willow

#1. One of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Rebecca West

#2. Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Les Dawson

#3. Merry a mind is

of a weeping willow

roots raising concrete

be in

fit out

all abstract.

Antonia Perdu

#4. The gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

Ithiel De Sola Pool

#6. The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Norman Mailer

#7. The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.

Panache Desai

#8. I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

Alan Titchmarsh

#9. I wanted, of course, for this bittersweet season to be over. I felt so strongly that when I finished the book, I'd be free to move into another season, one of life and celebration. But this is what I know now: they're the same thing, and that's all there is.

Shauna Niequist

#10. You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Edgar Cayce

#11. Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#13. I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

David Bowie

#14. Funny things, aren't they? People. They only believed in what they could see. Appearances were all that mattered, and no one would ever care what she was like on the inside. No one cared that she was breaking apart.

Amy Zhang

#15. God Save me from boys

Chloe Neill

#16. Silent sobbing. No one sees.
Weeping like the willow trees.
Feel my heart about to pop.
Need to make the aching stop.
See moon's shimmer softly pass.
On the shards of broken glass.

Madeleine Kuderick

#17. The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.

Matt Sharp

#18. I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Miranda Kerr

#19. I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.

Truth Devour

#20. We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.

Rachel True

#21. Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow
now old and broken , creaking in the breeze
turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

Ted Kooser

#22. For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

#23. Her brother is crying, he is wretched and broken. Though his sobs are barely audible, he is weeping with absolute and total abandon. Such a naked display of emotion is both alarming and frightening.

Julia Hoban

#24. a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing.

Marissa Meyer