Woods Quotes - Page 17

• Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

  Jane Kenyon

  Dog, Sweet, Strong

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

  Jason Akermanis

  Thinking, Superstitions, Caught

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• In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

  Joe Torre

  Eye, People, Competition

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• A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

  Greg Lynn

  Looks, Construction, Plastic

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• Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

  Matt Kuchar

  Years, Get Better, Done

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• I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Night, Phones, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  Yani Tseng

  Golf, Thinking, Get Better

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• The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

  James F. Cooper

  Sunshine, Past, Roots

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• So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Block, Player

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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

  Failure, Men, Fishing

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• I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

  John D. Voelker

  Animal, Fishing, Mushrooms

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• He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Horse, Nature

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.3592, e-artnow

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• We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wall, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Running, Years

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• One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

  Daniel Clowes

  Beautiful, Weekend, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

  Phil Robertson

  Thinking, Boys, Suits

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It starts with water. The kid who doesn't get to go to school because he's looking for water around his neck of the woods, that kid doesn't learn about HIV and then dies from AIDS. Or cholera or whatever. It all links back.

  Kenna

  School, Kids, Water

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Husband, Magic

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• Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

  RZA

  Fire, Alchemist, Burning

  Source: www.complex.com

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• As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Hero, Veins

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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• The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Dog, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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