Quotes About Tree Lines

#1. It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.

Graham Stuart Thomas

#2. Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#3. You sure about this, Sugar Snap?" ...
"I'm all in, Farmer Boy.

Alice Clayton

#4. Step 7: Oak Wood Outline Build a row of oak wood on the 1st and the 4th block below the ceiling between the pillars. Follow the blue lines in the picture and do this on all four sides. Check out the 2nd picture to see how the tree house should look by now.

Johan Loof

#5. I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

Noah Cicero

#6. That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

Peter Cushing

#7. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. The man had a dick on him that wouldn't quit.

MaryJanice Davidson

#9. When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Francis Bacon

#11. Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.

Jane Yolen

#13. Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge

#14. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josephine Baker

#15. I remember how that used to piss me off as a kid," he recalled. "Get yourself a brand-new knife and 5 minutes later it's hung up in power lines or a fucking tree. That sure is life. One minute things are moving along good, the next, the wind blows your ass to ruination.

Patricia Cornwell

#16. I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Carl Honore

#17. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

#18. Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Malcolm Cowley

#19. The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Francis Bacon

#20. I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Barbara Feldon

#21. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

Eden Robinson

#22. The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

F.C. Malby

#23. She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it.

Jo Walton

#24. Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'.

John Steinbeck

#25. Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.

Eden Robinson

#26. Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#27. I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

Cassandra Clare

#28. If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P.L. Travers

#29. One of the striking aspects of the lines is the way they make us see a tree, with its pattern of twigs, leaves and branches, as a visual image of the invisible roots of language.

Terry Eagleton

#30. Wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It

Sylvia Plath

#31. I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

Adriano Giannini

#32. The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Leslie Jamison

#33. That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.

Bryan Swanson

#34. She sees washing lines and women squatting by a stream, and the creaking ropes of a swing beneath a big tree, and a big dog, cowering from the taunts of the village boys, and a hawk-nosed man digging a ditch, shirt plastered to his back with sweat, and a veiled woman bent over a cooking fire.

Khaled Hosseini