Sacred Tree

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or tree:

“If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!”
And I said to him, “Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing, “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!””
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)