Palm Tree

Famous quotes containing the words palm tree, palm and/or tree:

    “Now here this, now here this. Reveille. I repeat, reveille. Attention all hands. Because another cigarette butt has been found in the container of the Captain’s palm tree, there will be no movies again tonight. That is all.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “O Love, what hours were thine and mine,
    In lands of palm and southern pine;
    In lands of palm, of orange-blossom,
    Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “A pinecone does not fall far from the tree trunk.”
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)