Eyestone Family Tree Quotes

I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't. ~ Ed Eyestone

No normal sheet of paper could possibly trace their family tree, which in any case was more like a mangrove thicket. ~ Terry Pratchett

My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep. ~ Lynda I Fisher

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

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. ~ Mark Twain

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

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. ~ Martin Freeman

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

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. ~ Casey Affleck

A tree has one stem but many branches, so does the human family. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it. ~ Donald Johanson

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ~ Henry Louis Gates

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come. ~ Steve Farrar

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. ~ Morrissey

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. ~ Henry Louis Gates

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents. ~ Danny Meyer

My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. ~ John Burroughs

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. ~ Hugo Chavez

Tell me about your family, I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way. ~ Mitch Albom

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree ... unless that tree's growing on top of a hill. ~ John DePrey

Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little. ~ Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. ~ Malaika Arora Khan

I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans. ~ Kelsey Chow

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ~ Michael Crichton

On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ~ Henry Louis Gates

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree. ~ Kamila Shamsie

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. ~ Florence King

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington. ~ Tom Bennett

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there. ~ Zach Braff

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds. ~ Esai Morales

Family became so important to me. Without it I was like a tree alone in a desert. ~ Alephonsion Deng

You can even tell where a person's family came from by looking at the type of bacterium he or she carries! ~ Jennifer Gardy

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. ~ George Horace Lorimer

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights. ~ Cory Booker

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~ Fred Allen

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree. ~ Sri Chinmoy

I'm planting a tree to grow with me all the days of my life. ~ Andrea Koehle Jones

You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature. ~ Amit Ray

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

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ~ Henry Louis Gates

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin. ~ Russell M. Nelson

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations. ~ Guy Murchie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~ Bill Vaughan

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. ~ Colin Camerer

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They stopped right in front of a grandfather tree with a deep knothole between two arm-like branches. The kids glanced at each other, but did not speak a word. ~ James Barbato

Treat every tree very good as if it is the last tree on earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick. ~ Ted Cruz

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs. ~ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.' ~ Kellan Lutz

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is. ~ Frederick Lenz

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. ~ Brad Henry

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. ~ Bobby Darin

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ~ Joseph Kesselring

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. ~ Jill Lepore

27. Trees
I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree. ~ Sei Shonagon

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. ~ Daniel Handler

So often, parents want to play Edward Scissorhands and start pruning their child like a tree, but the reality is that your tree has just begun to grow, and you don't even know what kind of tree it is. Maybe it's not a sports tree. ~ William Stixrud

A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at ~ John Berger

It's not a question of whether or not the apple falls far from the tree, because of course it doesn't." Her eyes fix in the distance. "It's whether or not the apple can grow taller than the tree. ~ Sara Wolf

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true. ~ Jean Shepherd

George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move. ~ Angelo Dundee

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ~ Matthew Fox

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street. ~ Annie Dillard

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree ~ Anchee Min

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

Marriage is what marriage is ... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage. ~ Rick Santorum

A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it. ~ Robert Ballard

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The ~ Ravi Zacharias

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is. ~ Tamora Pierce

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds. ~ Charles Dickens

Not for the first time, I wondered if my entire family tree was bat-shit crazy. ~ Pepper Winters

Oh, is that right? You know, a lioness will protect her cub by baring her teeth, by roaring, using her claws to defend her cub if she feels she has to - this mother, has other means. You are standing in the way of my daughter's best interests. If you try to pick our peach from our family tree, you will be picking a fight. Do you understand me? ~ Steven L. Sheppard

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve. ~ Blake Shelton

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. ~ Willie Stargell

This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache ... Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities. ~ Richard Louv

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. ~ Malcolm X

Do not underestimate the muteness of a tree. The rustling leaves of it can sing with the rival wind that many of us cannot do. ~ Munia Khan

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is. ~ Madonna

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up. ~ Aaron Patzer

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world ~ Munia Khan

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. ~ Pablo Casals

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. ~ Samuel Smiles

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree. ~ Isaac Newton

'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me. ~ Daniella Alonso

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly. ~ Rae Foley

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. ~ Franz Kafka

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. ~ John Milton

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed. ~ Julia Hill

A cherry tree was coming into bloom, shooting out a froth of sugar-pink blossoms. She could see from its size and the gnarled branches that it was a mature tree, yet still capable of putting on such a wonderful show.
A new beginning every spring, even from an old tree. ~ Maggie Alderson