The Man Whom The Trees Loved Quotes

#1. Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.
("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")

Algernon Blackwood

#2. The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#3. Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Paul A. Offit

#4. Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Samuel Johnson

#5. In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

Richard Flanagan

#6. God doesn't say, "I've set before you a hammock.

John Ortberg

#7. In the beginning, Orion was not considered to be a hunter but as the heretic cult grew, its adherent dared to war the upper heavens and were set off on a quest for hunting the lion (i.e., Sphinx) in its own dwelling. This is literally what 'Orion' the word means, the 'dwelling of the lion'.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#8. There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you!

Clifton Anderson

#9. She had dreamed that she lay beneath a spreading tree somewhere, a tree that whispered with ten thousand soft lips of green; and the dream continued for a moment even after waking.

Algernon Blackwood

#10. And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#11. If you think you can and truly believe you can,,,Eventually you will!

Timothy Pina

#12. Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#13. He'd wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

David O. McKay

#16. I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Mary Antin

#17. God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

#18. He, that same man, after having abandoned her, finds her after a night of orgie, pale and leaden, forever lost, with hunger on her lips and prostitution in her heart.

Alfred De Musset