#tree

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #experience #factory #i #i think

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. ↗

— Tony Blair

#boss #call #called #civil #civil servants

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ↗

— William Blake

#man #same #sees #tree #wise

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. ↗

— William Blake

#death #life #science #tree #tree of life

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

#buy #children #dance #experience #hath

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. ↗

— John Keats

#displayed #energies #fine #grace #hated

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #keep #made #once #says