Top 17 Xylem Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Xylem

#1. A tree is a vast thing full of heavy mass. But that mass is mostly inert. The real life of the tree happens in three very thin layers - the phloem, xylem, and cambium. These thin layers are just beneath the bark and they are the envelope of life around the heartwood at the center of the tree.

Ned Hayes

#2. A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.

George M. Church

#3. I pull back and an exhale eases out of my lips. He's the first person I've intentionally touched outside my family for the last six years.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#5. The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

L. Frank Baum

#6. Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Paul Tillich

#7. The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
Your picture brings me tears and memories,
The way things could be ... and they should be, but they're not.

Afrika Baby Bam

#8. A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

Oliver Hardy

#9. Want a closer look? (Tate) Like a screwdriver through my eye socket. Sure, let's have a look-see. (Simone) Ooo, welcome back, Ms. Snark. I've missed you. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.

Dikembe Mutombo