Vines Quotes - Page 9

• The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Night, Weather

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.409

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Walking Sticks

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• Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Passion, Heart

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• That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Support, Doe

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• There are no letters in the mailbox
  And there are no grapes upon the vine
  And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore
  And there are no diamonds in the mine

  Leonard Cohen

  Chocolate, Letters, Cynicism

  Song: Diamonds In The Mine, Album: Songs Of Love And Hate

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• Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

  Ian K. Smith

  Beach, Horse, Ocean

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• O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Orange, Land

  'The Daisy' (1855) st. 1

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• Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Children

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• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Song, Failure, Pages

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

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• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  George Washington

  Hope, Peace, Retirement

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1796). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Birthday, Age, Berries

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• I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.

  Colleen Houck

  Love You, Home, Heart

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Knowing, Hands

  Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sweet, Coffee, Wine

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.72, Bantam

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Wall, Eye, Fire

  Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to all to worship God beneath their own vine and fig tree, according to the dictates of their conscience. It guarantees to all the citizens of the several states the right to become citizens of any one of the states, and to enjoy all the rights and immunities of the citizens of the state of his adoption.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, America

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, Paris

  1939 Madeline.

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• Love is a rose
  But you better not pick it.
  It only grows
  When it's on the vine.
  Handful of thorns
  And you'll know you missed it.
  You lose your love
  When you say the word MINE.

  Neil Young

  Song, Love Is, Rose

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• Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

  Matsuo Basho

  Bridges, Rope, Gorges

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• God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Long, Fruit

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Women, Pretty Woman

  Song: Moonshiner

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