Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.[Victor Hugo] Quote:How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.[Victor Hugo] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.[Nelson Henderson] Quote:In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'[Dave Barry] Quote:Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.[Dave Barry] Quote:The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[Dave Barry] Quote:A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Little League baseball is a good thing 'cause it keeps the parents off the streets and it keeps the kids out of the house.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.[George Carlin] Quote:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.[Roy L. Smith] Quote:Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.[Larry Wilde] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. [Victor Hugo] Quote: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 3:22. 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. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I think that I shall never see<br>A poem lovely as a tree. [Moliere] Quote:Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. [Charles Dickens] Quote:He plants trees to benefit another generation. [Caecilius Statius] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. [Bill Vaughan] Quote: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] Quote:I think that I shall never see <br> a billboard lovely as a tree. <br> Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, <br> I'll never see a tree at all. [Ogden Nash] Quote:Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. [David Letterman] Quote:Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. [David Letterman] Quote:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. [Kahlil Gibran] Definitions of: treeDefinition: Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.Definition: Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. Definition: A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. Definition: A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. Definition: Wood; timber. Definition: A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. |
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