Spruces Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Comes he walking windy-ways, wandering under spruces and through canyons and across shadowy glens, hands in his pockets and head bowed as if all the weight of the world lies teetering on his slumped shoulders.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

Edith Wharton

#4. Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#5. When your life awakens and you begin to sense the destiny that brought you here, you endeavour to live a life that is generous and worthy of the blessing and invitation that is always calling you.

John O'Donohue

#6. If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Dave Brubeck

#7. Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Robert Wyatt

#8. Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Gayle Forman

#9. The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

Sonia Friedman

#10. I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Zubin Mehta

#12. And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. Why, in all the vastness of the world, did a sparkly idiot from Essex make me feel alive?

Alexis Hall

#14. I'm not saying all the women were hot. Some of them, if they fell overboard, they'd be harpooned by Japs.

Dave Barry