Tree Cutter Quotes & Sayings

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness.
Granger stood looking back with Montag. Everyone must leave something behind
when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a
wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand
touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when
people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The
difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the
touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the
gardener will be there a lifetime. — Ray Bradbury

Don't tell me how to raise my son." "He's twenty-eight years old," Eve said. "Your job is done. He's risen. — Rainbow Rowell

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013. — Marianne Williamson

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either. — Marguerite Young

Here, if nowhere else in the land, the sense of satiety is unknown; and it is to this mental tonic, even more than to the bracing air of the heights, that we owe the unwearied spirit which nerves us to walk more leagues upon the mountains than we could walk miles upon the plain. For in the lowlands we walk with the body only; in the highlands we walk with the mind — Henry Stephens Salt

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself. — Jackie Chan

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. — Craig Venter

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does. — Sergey Brin

I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself. — Keegan Allen

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe. — Quentin Tarantino

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe. — Isaiah