It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
— Sir Philip Sidney
Interesting Palm Trees quotations

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.
Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday.
A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees, screaming "Yikes!" in hieroglyphics as Neith chased after me. The thought of some poor archaeologist trying to figure that out almost lifted my spirits.
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees.
I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.
Lights are glowing in the palm trees.
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one;
the old have a greater attachment to the world.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.
I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it.
I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees;
A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.
Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me.
I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays;
/ And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.