Top 84 Tree Grows Quotes
#1. If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
Annie Golden
#2. One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
David Ignatow
#3. The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
Haruki Murakami
#4. Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#5. out of each pain which we dont mention
a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us
out of each hope which we cherish astar arises
and move unattainable in front of us
Vasko Popa
#6. A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."
Mary Ellen W. Smoot
#7. I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.
Douglas Lockwood
#8. Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
Chris Martin
#9. That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#10. Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.
Greg Keyes
#11. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'
Suzanne Collins
#12. 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.
Amandla Stenberg
#13. In any case, we do not and cannot understand what magic is, or where it comes from, any more than a carpenter understands why a tree grows. He doesn't have to. He works with what he has.
Lev Grossman
#15. I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.
Suzanne Collins
#16. I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.
William Ashworth
#17. Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did, someone else would own the orchard.
Lewis Grizzard
#18. The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees
Peter Drucker
#19. A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
Laozi
#20. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument.
Edward Abbey
#21. When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
Jocelyn Murray
#22. Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
Victor Hugo
#23. Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
Bob Ross
#25. Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
Vandana Shiva
#26. Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor Hugo
#27. I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
Constantin Brancusi
#29. Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
Eugene J. Martin
#30. (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) Edward Estlin Cummings
E. E. Cummings
#31. A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Laozi
#32. Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#35. The researchers looked at about 700,000 trees on every continent around the world. The surprising result: the older the tree, the more quickly it grows.
Peter Wohlleben
#36. The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere
#37. Anything you say may be used against you.
Betty Smith
#38. My natural hair is short and naturally grows to frame my face. So that's my favorite. I also like tree-braids. They're easy, fast, there's not much pulling on your hair, and they are very lightweight.
Erica Ash
#39. For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
Victor Hugo
#40. Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.
Arthur Koestler
#41. Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#42. A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#43. Anger is like a creeper vine that strangles the tree on which it grows
S.E. Sever
#44. The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
Robin Hobb
#45. The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall
Sara Coleridge
#47. It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.
Jaron Lanier
#48. She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
Betty Smith
#49. Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#51. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Evan Sutter
#52. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
Betty Smith
#53. The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
Gardiner Spring
#54. Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.
Richard Paul Evans
#55. ... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.
Richard Preston
#56. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.
John O'Donohue
#57. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
Betty Smith
#58. That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.
C. G. Jung
#59. The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
Pope Francis
#60. Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
John Dryden
#61. Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.
Rumi
#62. As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.
Max Muller
#63. A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Laozi
#64. The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
Isaac Newton
#65. Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree
Sunday Adelaja
#66. Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.
Ed Parker
#67. Superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.
Terry Goodkind
#68. You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.
Mark Shand
#69. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
Vera Nazarian
#70. Work at things before they've begun
and establish order before confusion sets in,
for a tree you can barely reach around
grows from the tiniest rootlet,
a nine-tiered tower
starts as a basket of dirt,
a thousand-mile journey
begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
#71. Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound
#72. Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
Stanley Baldwin
#73. A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
Nellie L. McClung
#74. I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.
Olive Schreiner
#75. My fruit grows on other people's trees.
Bob Buford
#76. Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.
Stefan Emunds
#77. Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#78. When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
#79. Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired,
Yiannis Kouros
#80. What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.
Jakob Nielsen
#81. Under a shady tree
can you feel the soft cool grass?
can you feel it with your toes?
we can sit here while it grows.
Laurie Berkner
Laurie Berkner
#82. A tree that falls makes a lot of noise. But a woodland that grows and spreads its roots, does it quietly.
Cristiane Serruya
#83. This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose
Judith Wright
#84. It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
