Tolkien Treebeard Quotes

#1. A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

Michael J. Gelb

#2. Gratitude is a powerful lens which, if we gaze through thoughtfully, we can come to a place where we are better able to understand ourselves.

Jacq Pollock

#3. A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Bruce Lee

#4. It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#5. The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. sometimes, you like someone enough to leave them alone.

M.J. Fields

#9. Never is too long a word even for me...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.' Treebeard

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. It is a lovely language,but it takes a very long time to say anything in it,unless it is worth taking a long time to say,and to listen to.
-Treebeard/Fangorn

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous ... it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas A. Edison

#15. For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house.

Nicki Minaj

#17. Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Emil Cioran

#18. What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

Sarah Josepha Hale

#19. Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"
-Pippin Took

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. Folly always knows the answer.

Mason Cooley