Best tree & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.”

Knows World Way Doe Important Reason Hands Grows Secret Existence Tree Ignorance Roots Profound Seeds Circles Absurd Explanation Paws Delirium Sprouts Extremity Nausea Rotation

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.”

May Hands Forget Tree Gratitude Midst Shopping Arranging Wrapping

Book:Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life

Source: Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life

“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”

Hands Joy Song Grows Lord Tree Fields Mountain Forests Destroyed Hills Everlasting Renown Pine Trees Myrtle

Author:Isaiah

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!”

“Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.”

Feels Looks Moments Hands Focus Tree Buddhism Mindfulness Grass Palms Ferrari Outrun Palm Trees

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”

Hands Together White Break Tree Wave Weather Sand March Weed Fierce Trunks Foam Tree Trunks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Giving Art Hands Faces Tree Movement Color Painting Fine Shadow Paint Lovely Painter Texture Fine Arts Fixing Reacting Unnoticed Lovely Things Antenna

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.”

Hands Tree Shots Fingers Wounds Bunch Torn Trunks Cannons Splinters

Book:Civil War Stories

Source: Civil War Stories

“A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.”

Firsts Hands Tree Fool Findings Hollow Wot

Book:The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.”

Hands Passion House Lost Tree Land Deserve Stones Rose Dinner Beach Staring Tone Beast Hats Shore Hunters Chasing Wild Beasts

Book:Days and Nights

Source: Days and Nights

“Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.”

Looks Hands Earth Father Heaven Sun Tree Shots Fairs Green Rose Naked Roof Breeze Columns Green Leaves

Author:William C. Bryant

“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?”

Hands Desire Brain Growing Tree Benefits Fruit Workers Recognition Earnest Monument Usefulness Blooming

Author:Washington Irving

“God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.”

Hands Found Nature Behinds Tree Wind Miracle Wave Woods Hands Of God

Author:Ronald Reagan

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.”

Wells May Hands Seems Spirit Simple Walks Tree Land Mines Keys Harmony Dear Thee Gentle Locks Solemn Intricate Musings Pine Trees

Author:John Barlas

“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

“On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me”

Source: Novels

“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”

Men Years Doe Book Hands Tree Youth Thousand Benefits Understood Hundred Mercy Prepared Fruit Be Prepared Assured Exalted

Author:Al-Ghazali

“The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.”

Men Should Hands Would Be Lying Waiting Chance Fire Tree Missing Design Kings Gun Motive Murderer Arrows Triggers Deer

Book:Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

Source: Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

“The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.”

Men May Book Hands Reading Forget Pleasure Tree He Man Duty Pure Infinite Riches Luxury Friendly Lasting Shade Torment Bosoms Grandeur Lively Compatible

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.”

Heart Hands Tree Praying Roots Fruit Praying To God Tree Of Life

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.”

People Hands Tree Bears Fruit Caring

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?”

Ifs Looks Hands Vision Seeing Tree Minutes Movement Training Train Senses Clock Perceive Slow Down Puddles

Author:Colin Wilson

“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”

Ifs World Said Facts Hands Born Common Grace Air Tree Sea Creation Appreciate Tasks Clean Available Massive Cleanliness Proceeding Baptized Pears Augustine God's Creation Clean Air

Author:Joseph Sittler

“Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.”

Enough Hands Faces Turns Practice Doors Tree Computer Beats Fruit Strikes Holes Firm Champion Apples Rough Mature Nurture Harvest Crops Bark Trunks Turn Off Pluck Transplants Apple Trees Mettle

Author:Nick Offerman

“To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!”

Men Ideas Hands Tree Fruit Clever Branches Shakes Tree Branches

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.”

Mind Humans May Hands Seems Eye Animal Focus Tree Skills Elements Rivers Exciting Broads Organisms Living Things Phenomenal Deck Humans And Animals Differentiation

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But you back them up, the younger brother especially, and he loses heart.”

Way Trying Heart Two Body Hands Guy Turns Fighting Three Loses Four Tree Brother Beats Down And Rounds Over It Bangs Chopping Younger Brother

Author:Gerry Cooney

“This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.”

“That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be bushes, some will bear fruits, some are for the season. My constant flow is to keep putting out quality and letting it get into the right hands.”

I Can Hands Can Do Quality Tree Bears Flow Seasons Constant Plant Fruit Seeds

Author:Salaam Remi

“They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.”

Hands Tree Scene Boring Beach Palms Palm Trees

Author:James MacArthur

“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”

Has Beens Hands Eye Next Perfect Taken Tree Wind Mets Summer Ordinary Breaths Forgotten Notebook Emeralds Summer Wind

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

Hands Felt Emotion Saws Magic Tree Sea Sky Crazy Sweet Moon Palms Breeze

Author:Nick Drake

“Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”

Mind Hands Today Past Memories Forget Fate Tree Sea Sky Crazy Tomorrow Sorrow Let Me Wave Driven Rings Ruins Smoke Beach Sand Frightened Take Me Diamond Frozen Twisted Circus Of My Mind Windy

Author:Bob Dylan

“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.”

Way Writing Facts Helping Hands Reading Causes Tree Waste Instruments Notes Prepared Awful Hitting Be Prepared Really Happy

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?”

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

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