Famous quotes containing the words apple tree, apple and/or tree:
“My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. womens magazine contributor. The Womans Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)
“Strong to break dead things,
the young tree, drained of sap,
the old tree, ready to drop,
to lift from the rotting bed
of leaves, the old
crumbling pine tree stock.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)