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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely
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"henry James chews more than he bites off." »Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
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"henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met." »William Faulkner
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"Now I understand why henry VIII started his own church." »John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
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"henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty." »Oscar Wilde
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"Throwing a fastball to henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster." »Curt Simmons
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"henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together." »Wilfred Sheed
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"henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard." »H. L. Mencken
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"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Follow the grain in your own wood." »Howard Thurman
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"'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood." »Ernest Hemingway
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost." »Dante Alighieri
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"One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes." »Arabic Proverb
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"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended." »Oriana Fallaci
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There needs no other charm, nor conjuror, To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear, That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail, That?s both a prisoner to itself and jail; Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains Of knotted wood, in some men?s crazy brains, When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls, Are only in the insides of their skulls." »Butler
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer
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