#tree

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#front #hands #holding #holding hands #i

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#about #against #down #enthusiastic #get

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#both #course #father #life #like

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#cinematographer #colours #control #designer #feeling

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#backstreet #band #metal #poison #pop

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#i #influence #learned #mind #power

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic