Famous quotes containing the words rubber and/or trees:
“Time for the flat-headed man. I recognize that listener,
Him with the platitudes and rubber doughnuts,
Melting at the knees, a varicose horror.
Hello, hello. My nerves knew you, dear boy.
Have you come to unhinge my shadow?”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“As great trees attract the winds, so great fame attracts envy.”
—Chinese proverb.