People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.
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It is more important to be free than to be happy.
TOM ROBBINS Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets...
BIBLE Storms make trees take deeper roots.
DOLLY PARTON A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots
MAORI PROVERB Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive tha...
WOODROW T. WILSON I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
DR. SEUSS Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on un...
JOYCE MEYER People demand the truth! But when the truth is told, they demand it's false.
JASON L. TREAT Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?
SINAN ANTOON Once you get hooked on it, you have a burning desire to discover the roots from which you came, so t...
GARY LLOYD People have developed a false sense of security when it comes to checks. They feel check fraud is so...
JAY LABONTE We want to help Odessa succeed. Our intent is to educate people, not so they can speak for us, but s...
MARIO CONTRERAS I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
DR. SEUSS "Listen Closely, Angels speak only one language.
Which is the language of Love." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp...
RUSSELL HOBAN After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they ...
RUSSELL HOBAN President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which wa...
RANDALL JARRELL Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER When people speak to you about others, listen carefully, for this is how they will speak about you t...
MAICHEE SUMMER Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just ha...
SAM HARRIS Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... “Plant trees for others, whose shade you will never sit under.”
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The tree root lifts up and breaks the sidewalk. They trim the roots back from the trees and put a ro...
JEFF SKIDMORE The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you ...
TOM CUNNINGHAM Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Candidly, it is an awkward position to be in, because when the voters speak, they speak,
CHARLIE BROWN The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
JONAH GOLDBERG In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providin...
SAID NURSI We will speak for the books."
...
"Like the Lorax?"
"The Lorax speaks for the trees,"...
PAUL ACAMPORA She really said no to nothing. I think Tom Robbins named her. She officially changed her name to Aur...
DANA RUST Upon the earth I rest, like the trees of autumn on a bed of leafy gold, nourished by roots of old.
ATALINA WRIGHT Our self image is based on people comments, so most images are false. You aren't this and this, they...
DEYTH BANGER Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being h...
DALAI LAMA When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI proj...
VERNOR VINGE I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When ...
DWYANE WADE Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; To...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This will give people plenty of time to take the trees home so they can enjoy them for the holidays.
APRIL BERTRAM Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having ...
NIKKI SIXX When people come to see us, they'll get so many flavors of acoustic roots music. It makes it hard to...
LAURENCE KNIGHT Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an a...
FRANK MEDLICOTT Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
ANTIPHANES ANTIPHANES Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
ANTIPHANES Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the bigge...
WOODROW WILSON When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
BRUNO TONIOLI "Santa’s helpers do much more than wrapping gifts and placing them under Christmas trees." ~Tom Ba...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at w...
ALEXIA FAST You know what it is? Alot of these people are just now jumping on the 'we hate Tom' band waggon. I'v...
BLINK 182 When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul graspi...
RUDOLFO ANAYA People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, peo...
SAM SHEPARD Tom is a god. Literally, anywhere I've seen him, when we're out with him, people just stop on the st...
JEFF PHILLIPS [Angela arent the first people to put graphic sex talk over backing tracks call em Peaches without t...
CHRISTOPHER RAND He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there,...
GARY MCCORD Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
ALEX HALEY Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and idea...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about t...
BURNING SPEAR So much of our work in Iraq has dealt with talking to families of people taken prisoner. Our work is...
CLIFF KINDY It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doi...
SAMANTHA BEE This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and ...
DAN HITCHINGS They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
IAIN M. BANKS People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've b...
CASEY STENGEL They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER Big trees have more leaves to trap air pollution and transpire water into the air. They have more ro...
DEBORAH GANGLOFF When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
REMY DE GOURMONT When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
PAULINE FREDERICK When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
WOODROW WYATT When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if th...
PAULINE FREDERICK Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
ALASTAIR FARRUGIA Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A...
AMELIA EARHART I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some peop...
BILLY CONNOLLY It is quite possible that if so many people are saying the same thing what they're saying could be f...
SUCCESS THOUGHTS It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E.M. FORSTER Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parentho...
MARCELENE COX I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
JACK BENNY When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are ...
AUDRE LORDE I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY For a lot of people, they don't care if they're junk trees.
JACK MESSER Good people get together only when the fair flux of false people are flushed out of the system.
APURVA GAGLANI People can say whatever they want to say, but the facts speak for themselves, ... When it comes to n...
TIM BROSNAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to k...
CAMILA ALVES I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...
GEORGE AUSTIN All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fert...
ALAN LIGHTMAN These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear...
BIBLE Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
JODI THOMAS When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are ...
JENNETTE MCCURDY Genuine people are God's emissary. They rarely occur but when they do, they speak from the heart. Su...
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TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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