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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. -- Blake Shelton
These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady -- Chamillionaire
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. -- David A. Siegel
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. -- Philip Sidney
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. -- Rudyard Kipling
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees. -- Paul Theroux
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living. -- Elmore Leonard
A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. -- Francesca Lia Block
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. -- Weegee
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. -- Samuel Rutherford
Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade. -- William C. Bryant
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it -- Dan Fogelberg
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ. -- Luigi Orione
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world. -- Saib Tabrizi
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
You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die. -- Ernie Holmes
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. -- Stephen Kendrick
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four. -- Hanan al-Shaykh
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring. -- James MacArthur
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. -- Carl Hiaasen
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. -- Dan Fogelberg
A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees. -- Greg Lake
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. -- Hugo Chavez
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns. -- Neill Blomkamp
Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place. -- Loudon Wainwright III
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. -- Bruno Tonioli
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. -- Colin Firth
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. -- Cherie Lunghi
Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place. -- Grimes
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. -- Eddie Vedder
Lights are glowing in the palm trees... -- Jimmy Buffett
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean -- Priyanka Chopra
Here I am," I say to the palm trees. "I can do this. Watch me. -- Eileen Granfors
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. -- Michael Dolan
I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars. -- Bruno Mars
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. -- John Gould Fletcher
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees. -- Greg Lake
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow -- Kevin Starr
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow. -- Kevin Starr
A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky. -- Victoria Kahler
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. -- David Hockney
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin

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