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"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote." »Emo Phillips
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can’t break the glass, don’t worry; science will do it for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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""He was an old sock and she was a glass slipper"" »William Parsons
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"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass." »Owen Felltham
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian." »Paul McCartney
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"Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water" »Signs
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"And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of." »William Shakespeare
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"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove." »Terry Pratchett
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"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry." »Nikolai Gogol
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"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." »Martin Mull
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." »Paul McCartney
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"And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of." »William Shakespeare
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"The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones." »English Proverb
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"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass." »Boileau
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"The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass." »Unknown
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"I've learned that you can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk." »Child Age 7
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"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken." »Publilius Syrus
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"glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Life is like an hour glass, every grain of sand means something." »zachary roderiques
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