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Famous quotes containing the words elder, family and/or tree:

    “Oh yes, that’s right. They chain up wild animals. That’s all I am, an animal.”
    —John Elder [Anthony Hinds], British screenwriter, and Terence Fisher. Leon (Oliver Reed)

    “Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms
    Grows from a downy tip;
    A terrace nine stories high
    Rises from hodfuls of earth;
    A journey of a thousand miles
    Starts from beneath one’s feet.”
    —Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)