Top 42 Quotes About Hemlock
#1. At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.
Peter Quinby
#3. It is spruce and pine and hemlock country, deerfly and punkie and blackfly country, wool and four-wheel-drive country, loon and osprey and raven country. My kind of country.
Christine Jerome
#5. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.
John Cheever
#7. By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.
John Vaillant
#8. Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.
Agatha Christie
#9. It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.
Denis Diderot
#10. It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
Lemony Snicket
#11. The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost
#12. For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
Don Marquis
#13. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
William Shakespeare
#14. How often when they find a sage
As sweet as Socrates or Plato
They hand him hemlock for his wage
Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View
Don Marquis
#15. Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
James Madison
#16. Robin had presented him with a fake degree from a university in Athens where the puck had an old acquaintance who still got a kick out of teaching, despite hemlock rumors to the contrary.
Rob Thurman
#17. Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Gil Amelio
#18. When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn't know whether to celebrate with champagne ... or hemlock.
Len Filppu
#19. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?
Italo Calvino
#20. What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
Emily Dickinson
#21. I am tempted to incapacitate him with the hemlock and then castrate him."
Lena paled. "I don't think that would be very wise," she said. "And the only knife we own is what I use for the cooking. You're not using that."
"I was planning on using a spoon," Honoria replied.
Bec McMaster
#22. Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus. (But they are a nightmare in small yards, where their eventual size is like having a brontosaurus nesting in the front yard.)
Cassandra Danz
#23. I think I will drink my hemlock now....
Tracy Groot
#24. There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.
Sam Smith
#25. Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
Kaniehtiio Horn
#26. The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.
Horace Kephart
#27. It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.
Kaniehtiio Horn
#28. 'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.
Marie Brennan
#29. Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
R.L. Hemlock
#30. If you want to produce exceptional writing you have to put the work into it.
R.L. Hemlock
#31. When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone
Misti Hemlock
#32. I am inspired to write, and I write to inspire.
R.L. Hemlock
#33. Hey hey hey," said Roman, "we don't love with our teeth.
Brian McGreevy
#34. He turned to face me and his eyes widened. "Are you crying?"
He sounded a little panicked, like the sight of a crying girl was scarier than anything that had happened over the past forty-eight hours.
Kathleen Peacock
#35. What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.
Kathleen Peacock
#36. Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or goddamn wish fulfillment.
Brian McGreevy
#37. In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.
Diana Wynne Jones
#38. Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
William Shakespeare
#39. Friends end. But family will stay when your friendship ends
Misti Hemlock
#41. Here, eat this. The chicken gives it protein and I got them to hold the bacon bits.
We'd watched Charlotte's Web on cable last week, so I knew it'd be at least a month before she would eat pork again.
Kathleen Peacock
#42. He kissed me. And then he said it was a mistake."
Serena wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Normally, I'd quote that copy of He's Just Not That Into You I picked up at a yard sale but-
Kathleen Peacock
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