- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woods Quotes
On nature, quiet, and childhood spaces that shaped the imagination.
Several lines treat woods as something worth protecting, recalling a childhood worry that cities might eventually replace every open, wild space. Read more in our Nature quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we filmed the premiere episode of 'United Shades of America,' it was like we were turning over a rock in the woods. The KKK was not part of the national conversation. They were really just a punchline for comedians when you needed to let the audience know something was really, really, really racist.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
- Nov 07, 2020
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020