Woods Quotes - Page 15

• Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, People, Goes On

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Cutting, House, Village

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• If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.

  Carson Cistulli

  Baseball, Fall, Games

  "Hell Isn't (Necessarily) Other People". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2010.

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• Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Rain, Men, Names

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• I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

  Keegan Bradley

  Realizing, Intimidating, Tigers

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  Saul Bellow

  Moving, Roots, White

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Games, Green

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Tree

  Source: portside.org

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

  Anne Truitt

  Men, Steel, Sculpture

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

  Jane Yolen

  Years, Essence, Water

  Jane Yolen (2016). “Sister Light, Sister Dark”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Gratitude, Fall, Men

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202

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• When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Jesus, Religion, Impossible

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• Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Education, Lying, Long

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

  Vance Havner

  Blow, Roots, Long

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• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• O lovely river of Yvette!
  O darling river! like a bride,
  Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
  Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
  O lovely river Yvette!
  O darling stream! on balanced wings
  The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
  That here a wandering poet sings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Rivers, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

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• He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

  Steven Tyler

  Smell, Lakes, Feelings

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• I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

  Johnny Cash

  Bird, Cabins, Ponds

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• I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Rain, Exercise

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?

  Danny Denzongpa

  Dream, Perseverance, Writing

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• The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Ice, Snow

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• But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Oats, Apples

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• the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Summer, Nature, Garden

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