Famous quotes containing the words trees and/or blown:
“One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Taffeta phrases, silken phrases precise,
Three-piled hyperbole, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical—these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
I do forswear them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)