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Quotes About Tree of Life

Maybe all the trees were God.--A Parchment of Leaves
~ Silas House
But deep under the earth, where the corpse serpent gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, there are three spinners. Three women who make our fate. We might believe we make choices, but in truth our lives are in the spinners' fingers. They make our lives, and destiny is everything. The Danes know that, and even the Christians know it, Wyrd biõ ful araed, we Saxons say, fate is inexorable.
~ Bernard Cornwell
En la imagen del árbol de la vida que tenía en su mente Darwin hay también mucha muerte. Un gran número de hojas secas yacen en el suelo, bajo la verde copa. Corresponden a los organismos desaparecidos que solo nos son conocidos por los fósiles, las hojas marchitas que en su día brillaron al sol.
~ Juan Luis Arsuaga
LA CRUZ SUFRIENTE DE JESÚS ESTÁ MANCHADA CON LOS PECADOS DEL MUNDO, PERO LA CRUZ GLORIOSA DE CRISTO LIMPIA LOS CORAZONES PECADORES ENSUCIADOS POR EL PECADO Y PARA TODOS LOS QUE SON SALVOS, LA CRUZ ES UN ÁRBOL DE VIDA.
~ Billy Graham
Holy At the cross of the cross Is the part that holds. Two roads Meet; after that is the work of continuing On. Beyond intersection Lies departure, which is then to see What goes on without you, what Does not go wrong. Once tree reconciles Against another; arm over arm…
~ Sophie Cabot Black
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life." ~ Proverbs 13:12, C3rd BCE
~ Sorita d'Este
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
CHILDHOOD IS THE FOUNDATION STONE UPON which stands the whole life structure. The seed sown in childhood blossoms into the tree of life. The education which is imparted in childhood is more important than the education which is received in colleges and universities. In the process of human growth, proper guidance along with environmental learning is important.
~ Swami Rama
In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
~ Caleb Deschanel
The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.
~ Simon Conway Morris
It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.
~ Anohni
When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was new to the industry, and they wanted to get to know me.
~ Jessica Chastain
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
~ Alicia Vikander
My first audition was for Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.' These casting directors came through Texas, and they recruited somewhere around 10,000 kids to come and audition for this movie. They sent me a letter in the mail, and I went and auditioned for this movie.
~ Tye Sheridan
I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.
~ Brad Pitt
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.
~ Thaksin Shinawatra
As Chen explained, the Chinese fossils turn Darwin's tree of life "upside down.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
~ Gerard de Nerval
A seven-armed golden lampstand is perpetually aflame with holy oil to light the tent. It is shaped like a blossoming almond tree, a symbol of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden so long ago. But it is also considered the 'light of the world' that gives light to all men.
~ Brian Godawa
What exactly is a cherubim?" Salah began. "Cherub," corrected Uriel. "Cherubim is the plural. They are the carriers of the throne chariot of Elohim. They were also guardians of the tree of life and the gates of Eden," said Uriel. "What do they look like? Do they look like you?" Salah's childlike innocence amused Uriel. "They are far more terrifying than me." "That isn't saying much," Noah jested.
~ Brian Godawa
Oh, claro Vietnam, si cae la bomba sobre el mar lleva tu árbol y tu escudo hasta la puerta del país. Ciérrala firme. (de En El País de Vietnam)
~ Nancy Morejón
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
~ Kate Atkinson
A traveller on a dusty road ?Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, ?And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening-time, ?To breathe its early vows; And Age was pleased, in heights of noon, ?To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, ?The birds sweet music bore— It stood a glory in its place, ?A blessing evermore.
~ Charles Mackay
The object of the theoretical (as separate from the practical) Qabalah, insofar as this thesis is concerned, is to enable the student to do three main things: First, to analyze every idea in terms of the Tree of Life. Second, to trace a necessary connection and relation between every and any class of ideas by referring them to this standard of comparison. Third, to translate any unknown system of symbolism into terms of any known one by its means.
~ Israel Regardie