Fruiting Trees Quotes & Sayings

I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know. — David J. C. MacKay

Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?' — Colin Trevorrow

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy. — Christopher Cross

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty

Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable. — Philip Zimbardo

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it. — Meg Howrey

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict. — Bryant McGill

These were colours he'd never ever seen before; ones he couldn't possibly begin to name. Here, to his left, was a wooden clock, and it was painted, well not exactly green, but a colour that green might like to be if it had any imagination at all. And over there, beside the wooden board game whose overriding colour was not red, but something that red might look at enviously, blushing with embarrassment at its own dull appearance. And the wooden letter sets, well, there were those who might have said that they were painted yellow and blue, but they would have said this knowing that such plain words were an outrageous insult to the colouring on the letters themselves. — John Boyne

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. — Virginia Woolf

if you want to help others, your little self must go. — Swami Vivekananda

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. — Rodney Dangerfield

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free. — Morris Chestnut

When the sunlight hit the trees, all the beauty and wonder come together. Soul unfolds its petals. Flowering and fruiting of plants starts. The birds song light up the spinal column and harmonize the hippocampal functioning. — Amit Ray

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these — Neil Gaiman