Spruce Trees Quotes

#1. The tall blue spruce trees surrounding the church stood like ancient prophets in white gowns and a peregrine falcon that had taken up residence in the belfry perched on a ledge keeping an eye out for wandering mice.

Kathleen Valentine

#2. The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into ...
A monkey?
I think not.

Garth Stein

#3. I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

Diego Klattenhoff

#4. All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past

Don DeLillo

#7. The war never leaves

Victoria Aveyard

#8. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

#9. In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

David Brainerd

#10. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light.

Jack London

#11. One of the oldest trees on Earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9,500 years old.

Peter Wohlleben

#12. The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Noreena Hertz

#13. When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya

#15. There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

Justin Buzzard

#16. The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

George Jean Nathan

#17. Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

Taran Killam

#18. String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#19. Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

Spencer Kayden

#20. All in all, it would be a perfect afternoon, if not for the fact that I have a meeting coming up at which I am concerned that I could be killed.
There's always something ...

David Rosenfelt