Rose Tree

Famous quotes containing the words rose and/or tree:

“By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels’ wives.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)

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