Willow Trees Quotes

• It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Brother, Children, Blessed

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1876). “The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe”, p.71

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Play, Water, Tree

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• No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

  Ann Brashares

  Cutting, Tree, Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2013

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• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Should Have, Boredom

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Wind, Tree

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• All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

  John Heywood

  Tree, Green, Garlands

  'The Green Willow'.

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• What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Children, Tree, Pity

  Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Racism, Tree, Body

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• I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grandparent, Childhood, Tree

  "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.

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• It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Character, Garden

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girl, Hair, Long

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• Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, Light

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• As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

  George Orwell

  War, Thinking, Lakes

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Swimming, Animal

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• Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Letting Go, Mother, Healing

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• I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in.

  Willow Smith

  Fashion, Clothes, Sick

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

  Shel Silverstein

  Sweet, Tree, Fool

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• Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

  Mike Harding

  Beautiful, Mother, Song

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