Under Palm Tree Quotes

#1. It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

Luigi Orione

#2. It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Philip Sidney

#3. The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Saib Tabrizi

#4. But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

Nick Drake

#6. You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#7. The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

Michael Dolan

#8. Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Samuel Rutherford

#9. That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.

Stephen Kendrick

#10. A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

Jose Andres

#11. Stories of the Virgin being succoured by a friendly palm tree had actually been a Christian tradition for centuries, and seem in turn to have derived from a legend told by the pagan Greeks, was blithely ignored - as, of course, it was bound to be.

Tom Holland

#12. It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

David Hockney

#13. Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

Carl Hiaasen

#14. I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

Channing Tatum

#15. Lights are glowing in the palm trees ...

Jimmy Buffett

#16. Where has he gone, my meadow mouse,
My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm?
To run under the hawk's wing,
Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree,
To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat.
(from "The Meadow Mouse")

Theodore Roethke