Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

About Pericles

Portrait of Pericles

Pericles ( ; Ancient Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495–429 BC) was a Greek statesman

More quotations tagged with “trees”

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

—Joyce Kilmer

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

—Charles Dickens

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