Quotes About Birch Trees

#1. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

#2. Birch trees
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life

Muriel Barbery

#3. The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#4. Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

Paul Stamets

#5. Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.

Alice Munro

#6. The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Arnold Newman

#7. My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

Michael Sheen

#8. When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

Sean Bean

#11. Why did you call me Jack of Hearts?'
'Because you like to gamble girls' hearts and play them close to your chest.

Jonathan Dunne

#12. The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Thomas A. Edison

#13. I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

J.K. Rowling

#14. Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

Gregg Popovich

#15. For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, that's the way I want to live my life. It moved me.

Tom Cruise

#16. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

#17. I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without ... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

Taylor Swift

#18. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

Mark Cuban

#19. Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

Bernard Of Clairvaux