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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

Tomorrow, Knew, Plant

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, Liberty, Blood

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Character, Real, Reputation

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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

Christmas, Heart, Find

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Down, Give, Four

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

Same, Arts, Religions

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Time, Important, Decision

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

History, Knowledge, Past

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Love, Fruit

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Time, Today, Long

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

Wind, While, Notice

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

Hope, Lost, Lord

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Jim Rohn

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.
Timothy Dexter

Ungrateful, Looking, Eating

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

Beautiful, Rain, Dark

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born, Believing, Beliefs

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

History, Connected, Apple

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Before, Except, Months

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Rodney Dangerfield

Family, Three, Found

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Nature, True, Made

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan

Sure, Sit, Cure

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

Life, Knowledge, Sorrow

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

Nature, Eyes, Joy

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Hypocrite, Down, Speech

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Friend, Green

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Rodney Dangerfield

Family, Found, Sap

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya

Family, Single, Son

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