|
"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
|
|
"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
|
|
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
|
|
"A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow." »Charles Krauthammer
|
|
"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
|
|
"Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
|
|
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
|
|
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
|
|
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
|
|
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
|
|
"If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
|
|
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." »Mark Twain
|
|
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
|
|
"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." »Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
|
|
"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
|
|
"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." »H. L. Mencken
|
|
"That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green
|
|
"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
" »Med Jones
|
|
"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
|
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
|
|
"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
|
|
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
|
|
"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
|
|
"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
|
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
|
|
"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
|
| New: We also know Zip Codes FYI! |
