A Quotes
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“A tree that is five, six, eight, or fifteen feet across, the champions we are cloning, is what the size of all the trees in our forests once was, that all of America was covered with, not just one lone, last solider standing. When we look at the trees around us, we're looking at the runts, the leftovers. The whole country should be forested coast to coast with these giants, not with the puny, scraggly, miserable mess we call our forests. We don't realize what we've lost.
The champions do their best in communities that are hundreds or thousands of acres. They're struggling in little pockets to hang on... We're in the fifty-ninth minute of the last hour.”
Source: The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
“A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.”
Source: Great Reflections on Success
“A tree that is unbending is easily broken in a powerful storm. But not grass.” Scratching the scar at the corner of one eye he added , “Or so says some guy named Lao Tzu.”
Source: Go
“A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.”
Source: 道德经
“A tree there is that from its topmost bough
Is half all glittering flame and half all green
Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
And half is half and yet is all the scene;
And half and half consume what they renew.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“A tree trunk is not a perfect cylindrical or rectangle shape. It's irregular and it's beautiful. That's how life is. Make peace with the mistakes and foolishness of past.”
“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.”
“A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.”
Source: Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
“A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”
“A tree which grown bent by itself there is not your fault in it.”
“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.”
“A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.”
“A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.”
Source: The Essence Of Happiness
“A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.”
“A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.”
“A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.”
“A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
“A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane”
“A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.”
“A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.”
“A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.”
“A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.”
“A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.”
“A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more penetrating and urgent than any novel or thriller. This unfolding mystery is nature’s challenge to us. Are we paying enough attention to it?”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas. And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they're coming to visit or stay with.”
“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.”
“A tremendous rush ran through her body, as if every cell were electrified at once. She could taste his saliva and, as their tongues touched, she knew they loved each other as much as they ever had, a wonderful love, beyond space and time, impossible and unbearable.”
Source: Prohibition A
“A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.”
“A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.”
“A tremendous thunderclap was heard, the loudest there has ever been ... The sun remained hidden behind dark clouds, and there was only twilight, gray and misty. Then the earth trembled, and there came a great roar of something immense moving. The people saw a sheer green wall advancing toward them, filling the valley from one side to the other. At first they did not know what it was, and then they realized that it was a wall of green water. Destroying everything in its path, it came like a huge beast, a green monster, rushing upon them, foaming, hissing, in a cloud of spray. It engulfed the seer's house and carried it away with the seer, who was never seen again. Then the water fell upon the villages, sweeping away homes, people, fields and trees. The flood swept the valley clean as with a broom. Then it rushed on beyond the valley to wreak havoc elsewhere.”
Source: American Indian Myths and Legends
“A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?”
“A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.”
“A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.”
“A tribal mind is a troubled mind.”
“A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.”
“A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.”
“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get”
Source: The Strange Land
“A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.”
“A Tribute to the Kite
.....Oh such joy what a splendor has never been heard of a string that would lend you the wings of a bird.
Sara Loo, Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry”
“A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.”
“A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.”
“A trickle of bile runs down my throat. "No one else seems to think that."
"Who cares what anyone else thinks? What do you think?"
"Thora, do you really believe that no one else's opinion matters?
"Absolutely." She shrugs as if it's as easy as two plus two. "At the end of the day, I'm the only one living my life. Why should I answer to anyone else?"
"You obviously don't remember high school very well."
She snorts. "Of course I do. The unspoken social hierarchy sucks. But do you know what I've figured out since then?" She dances her fingers in front of my eyes. "It's all perception, Scots. Making people see what you want them to see. If you want them to think that you matter, start acting like they should already know that you matter.”
Source: She Drives Me Crazy
“A trickle of blood slid down his arm.
He felt nothing. He only saw it.
Because nothing hurt like missing her.
He suspected nothing ever would”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.”
“A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.”