quotes about Woods
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With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.
-- Abbi Glines -
Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
-- Abbi Glines -
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods
-- Abbi Glines -
Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
-- Abu Hurairah -
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I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.
-- Aidan QuinnSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
-- Amy Tan -
They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.
-- Andrew Hacker -
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In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
-- Anne Ursu -
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
-- Annie Dillard -
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
-- Ansel Adams -
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
-- Baroness Orczy -
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.
-- Bruce Littlefield -
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
-- Carl AndreSource : Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
-- Charles Churchill -
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
-- Charles Frazier -
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
-- Charles Kuralt -
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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
-- Charles Lamb -
No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown...
-- Charles M. Schulz -
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
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It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy
-- Chris Cole -
I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
-- Chris Evans -
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
-- Chris Martin -
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Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.
-- Clinton ScollardSource : Clinton Scollard (1906). “Easter-song: Lyrics and Ballads of the Joy of Spring-time”
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Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
-- Colette InezSource : Colette Inez (1993). “Getting under way: new and selected poems”, Story Line Pr
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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
-- Cormac McCarthy -
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The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.
-- Dakotsu Iida -
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
-- Dana DelanySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
-- Daniel Boone -
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I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.
-- Darren Criss -
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It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
-- Dashiell HammettSource : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press
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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
-- Dixie Lee Ray -
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records
-- Duncan Sheik -
So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Time can make soft that iron wood.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
-- Ellen DeGeneresSource : "12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women" by Kelly Conniff, time.com. May 18, 2014.
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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
-- Ellsworth KellySource : "Ellsworth Kelly creates from all angles". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.
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What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.
-- Emily Blunt -
Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.
-- Emily Carr -
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
-- Emily CarrSource : Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers
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And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
-- Ernest GainesSource : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.191, Serpent's Tail
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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, Â plaster or clay.
-- Eva Zeisel -
I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
-- Fran KranzSource : "Fran Kranz on Dollhouse, Cabin In The Woods, and Much Ado About Nothing". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2012.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
-- Franz Kafka -
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.
-- Gary Kovacs -
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
-- Georg Brandes -
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
-- Georg Kieninger -
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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
-- Georg Trakl -
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
-- George AdeSource : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
-- George Eliot -
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
-- George Nakashima -
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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
-- Georges Simenon -
It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers,
-- Gloria Allred -
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
-- Gloria Swanson -
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
-- Gloria Whelan -
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The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
-- Gordon MacQuarrie -
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
-- Greg Lynn -
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
-- Gustav KlimtSource : Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.63, Book and Magazine
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The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
-- Gustav StickleySource : Gustav Stickley (1912). “More Craftsman Homes: Floor Plans and Illustrations for 78 Mission Style Dwellings”, p.146, Courier Corporation
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Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
-- Hal Borland -
You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'
-- Hank Haney -
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
-- Hank HaneySource : "'It's not easy being Tiger'". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.
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Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
-- Hank HaneySource : "It's not easy being Tiger". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.
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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
-- Harrison Ford -
The woods are full of long drivers.
-- Harvey PenickSource : Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
-- Helmut Jahn -
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
-- Henry David Thoreau -
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
-- Henry David Thoreau -