‘Boy,’ ‘October,’ ‘War,’ ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ and ‘The Joshua Tree,’ those records, they’re part of my musical DNA and structure. – Taylor Hawkins
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. – Thomas Dekker
‘Tree Fu Tom’ is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children’s development. – Sophie Aldred
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep – they will shoot up again! – Toussaint Louverture
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. – Taylor Swift
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. – Walter Scott
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don’t believe they are as much alive as we are. – Ziggy Marley
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. – Susan Olsen
When I’m on set filming ‘One Tree Hill,’ I get up and work out four to five days a week. – Shantel VanSanten
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable. – Tom Waits
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic. – Susan Blackmore
‘Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,’ I tell people, ‘mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.’ – Victoria Moran
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year. – Thomas S. Monson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson
The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I’m sure of that. – Tom T. Hall
Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I’m not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were – is there any good reason why I shouldn’t be buying some red stockings? – Sayed Kashua
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn’t have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing. – Tyson Chandler
I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I’ll probably be given jewelry instead. – Susan Orlean
My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington. – Tom Bennett
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with. – Scott Walker
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen
If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it. – Tim Howard
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. – William Shatner
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. – Thaksin Shinawatra
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. – Samuel Alexander
Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree. – Terry Teachout