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“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassu...”
“The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.”
“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”
“If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?”
“When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.”
“Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.”
“'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'”
“You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who wan...”
“You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.”
“When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.”
“Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.”
“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.”
“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.”
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”
“A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.”
“I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.”
“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”
“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite ...”
