Quotes About Crooked Trees

#1. Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

Jodi Picoult

#2. For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

John Lyly

#3. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!

Edith Wharton

#4. I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

Rupert Graves

#5. It has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. You're - you're something else, someone really special, and I feel completely justified in being in love with you.

Sarah Cross

#7. Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks and didn't understand the mess of life. These were roots forced to grow around, and down, and through, to survive.

Amber Kizer

#8. Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity

Evo Morales

#9. When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Placido Domingo

#10. Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots.

Ella Frank

#11. The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Anthony Lewis

#12. I'm not perfect,I won't be. But I'm a human with mistakes and I'm coexisting with my mistakes

Mohammed Sekouty

#13. Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Chanakya

#14. Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

Will.i.am

#15. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#16. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

Michael Winter