Towering Pines Quotes

#1. Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true

Bruce A. Sarte

#2. I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.

Vironika Tugaleva

#3. As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#4. Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that the lowest limbs started twenty feet above my head. Longfellow had no idea.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. Don't worry about how inexperienced you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lord's help, you can become.

Henry B. Eyring

#6. Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Plato

#7. There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever!

Hanshan

#8. We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

Iris Chang

#9. Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

Alexander Alekhine

#10. I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating." Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. "We are bound, he and I. Cut him and I bleed.

Cassandra Clare