Top 57 Quotes About Palm Trees
#1. A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky.
Victoria Kahler
#2. So there I was, sitting on the plane in a black leather motorcycle jacket, seeing these palm trees through the window as we landed. And I thought, Great. Black leather and palm trees. Already I'm fitting in, just like I knew I would ...
... Not.
Meg Cabot
#3. Jessica stopped a few feet away so that Ken could get an optimal view of her body posed against the seductive backdrop of the sea, sand, and palm trees.
Francine Pascal
#4. But everything Had changed , the oasis would never again have the same meaning it had had only yesterday . it will no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells . from that day on , the oasis would be an empty place
Paulo Coelho
#5. Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
Rudyard Kipling
#6. Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.
Kirk Douglas
#7. I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
Paul Theroux
#8. Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
Weegee
#9. Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#10. Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.
William C. Bryant
#11. Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place.
Charles Simic
#12. Control.... is not what we need.
What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.
Patricia Pearson
#14. It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Luigi Orione
#15. Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.
Lisa See
#16. Here I am," I say to the palm trees. "I can do this. Watch me.
Eileen Granfors
#17. Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
Blake Shelton
#18. So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm trees, and your highassed women, and your fancy streets, for I am going home, back to Colorado, back to the best damned town in the USA - Boulder, Colorado.
John Fante
#19. It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
David Hockney
#20. I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.
Ernie Holmes
#21. Cruising down Sunset Boulevard with the Cramps blasting and palm trees silhouetted by the neon signs of strip clubs can sometimes repair the worst of moods.
Sophia Amoruso
#22. I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.
Greg Lake
#23. God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.
Amin Maalouf
#26. These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady
Chamillionaire
#27. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day
Frank McCourt
#28. I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.
Johnny Galecki
#29. The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening to snap. But they wouldn't. They were strong enough to take it.
And so was I.
Michelle Hodkin
#30. My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
#31. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
Eoin Colfer
#32. I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.
Andrew Porter
#33. California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
Mark Hoppus
#34. Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.
Loudon Wainwright III
#35. They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
James MacArthur
#36. I expected palm trees and red carpets, said Iko, brow drawn in a show of severe disappointment.
Marissa Meyer
#37. If you've 'eard the East a-callin', why you won't 'eed nothin' else.
No! you won't 'eed nothin' else, but them spicy garlic smells, an' the sunshine an' the palm trees, an' the tinkly temple-bells.
Rudyard Kipling
#38. My favorite place to be is by the bay where the palm trees sway.
Janet Toole Lewis
#39. While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
Peter Saul
#40. I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#41. No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
Meg Cabot
#43. The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#44. For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean
Priyanka Chopra
#45. The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen
#46. Below me, clusters of palm trees were painted green-gold. Tousled by the wind, their fronds resembled tangles of unspooled cassette tape.
Louisa Hall
#47. The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.
Michael Dolan
#48. I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
Bruno Tonioli
#49. A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.
Neill Blomkamp
#50. Before you there lie the Steppes, my darling - only the Steppes, the naked Steppes, the Steppes that are as bare as the palm of my hand. There there live only heartless old women and rude peasants and drunkards. There the trees have already shed their leaves. There abide but rain and cold.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.
John Gould Fletcher
#52. The truck blasts through the trees and I stick my hand out the window, trying to catch the wind in my palm like bails used to, missing her, missing the girl I used to be around her, missing who we all used to be. We will never be those people again. She took them all with her.
Jandy Nelson
#53. In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.
Eban Goodstein
#54. I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
Jack Kerouac
#55. How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
Andrew Marvell
#56. The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.
Laline Paull
#57. A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
Kevin Starr
