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If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. -- Mahmoud Darwish
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. -- Odysseas Elytis
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! -- Carre Otis
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? -- William Shakespeare
Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore. -- Stephen Spender
He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. -- Virginia Woolf
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. -- Henry Ward Beecher
For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject. -- Ugo Mochi
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all. -- Fredrika Bremer
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be. -- Giorgos Seferis
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. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God. -- Rabbi Akiva

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