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I just want the pine trees and my kids and the green grass. I want to get rich and fat and watch my children grow.

- Steve McQueen

(on the hoopla over homosexual slurs in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back") "Gay or straight has never been a big issue with me. Sex is sex, as far as I`m concerned. Some cats dig on the opposite gender, and some cats dig on their own. Sexual identity will always be as mystifying as why `The Dukes of Hazzard` was once the number one television show in our country: there`s no point in getting bent out of shape about it; it just IS. Some cats will always gravitate toward Daisy Duke, and some will always pine over Boss Hogg."

- Kevin Smith

This was a business decision. It involves establishing the most efficient process for getting our products to customers at the lowest cost, and is no reflection on the Pine Bluff workforce.

- Cindy Anderson

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

- Martha Gellhorn

I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask myself without any distractions, `What do you want to do with your life? Where do you want to go? What do you want to be?` And with nothing but blue skies and pine nuts, I was able to see the light.

- Harland Williams

Pine Plains outplayed us. They forced a lot of turnovers and we couldn`t handle the pressure.

- Brian Bishop

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

- Michael Ende

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It`s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

- Ron Reagan

(And there`s no faux wood—anywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir beams from 100-year-old Midwestern barns.) All the way down to the nails, it`s a real barn, ... you feel like it`s real stuff.

- Chris Adams

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

- Alexandre Galley

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I`ve been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

- Anthony Sabino

It`s been rough here down on the ranch, about the driest I`ve seen it since I moved down here seven years ago. It`s rough on the trees. All the pine trees we`ve been planting are just turning brown.

- Auberon Herbert

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

- Helen Keller

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

- Henry David Thoreau

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

- Hamlin Garland