Dendrophilia Quotes & Sayings

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. — William Henry Harrison

The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world. — Chuck Palahniuk

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens. — Adam McKay

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood. — Lu Xun

He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid. — Jonathan Safran Foer

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans. — Bruce Babbitt

feminism is for everybody — Bell Hooks

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. — Francois Jacob

The German word for tatting is Schiffchenarbeit meaning 'the work of the little boat — Rebecca Jones

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man. — Lady Bird Johnson

All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom. — Junius

I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. — Mignon McLaughlin

I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head. — Mose Allison

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing. — Jesmyn Ward