Quotes About Adversity

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

People don't fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it's too much.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.