Quotes with holly-tree

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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Orson Welles Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Martin Luther First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friendship is a sheltering tree.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
    Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Cyril Connolly Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph - green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Roy L. Smith He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Ezra Pound 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
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Fred A. Allen I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis I said to the almond tree, ''Friend, speak to me of God,'' and the almond tree blossomed.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Buddy Holly I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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  • Bryan Greenberg If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • John Ruskin If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Buddy Holly If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
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  • Arthur Holly Compton If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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