Quotes About Transformation

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—

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.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

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.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

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

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I'm a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I've been

Change like a treeWhen it is winterDon't complain or fearJust wait for the spring To bloom and sing