Top 200 Wood Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Wood Quotes from famous people such as Christian Bale, Gloria Swanson, David Linley, Don Willett, Xavier Rudd, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
Christian Bale
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson
I love wood. I love its permanence, its way of changing hue over the years, its way of expanding and contracting, of moving or aging and growing better and more beautiful with time.
David Linley
A Charlie Brown Christmas’ is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel – God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross.
Don Willett
My music is roots music: it’s a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds, salt, sand, fire, dogs, and heaps of brothers.
Xavier Rudd
I don’t like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn’t important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
Georg Baselitz
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It’s in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin’ at it.
Carl Perkins
I’ve been offered, I think it was £300,000 to play live two concerts in London some years ago. And I said ‘No. No thanks.’ I would rather stay home here and change oil on my car, or collect some rotten wood from the forest, spread on my ruined former agricultural land.
Varg Vikernes
Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Layne Staley
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
William Henry Ashley
Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
Zooey Deschanel
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I’ll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I’ll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
Pat Mastelotto
I have so many wonderful people in my life. I’ve never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I’m a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.
Carrie Underwood
We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn’t.
Helmut Jahn
What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.
Jamie Oliver
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Authors don’t tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey’s first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of ‘B Is for Burglar.’
Sarah Weinman
A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.
Gutzon Borglum
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, ‘Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters – it breaks.’ And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain – to be sensitive to the direction of life.
Christian Louboutin
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood – there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 ‘o clock.
Gustav Klimt
I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Jana Novotna
A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.
Michael Portillo
Fortunately, I’m OK with my body. I try to take care of it. I played a lot of games over a season for several years, so, touch wood, I will stay fit and healthy.
Olivier Giroud
Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.
Stephen Moore
If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I’ll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood – and believe me, it’s gonna be a brawl.
Pat Burns
I had one injury in pretty much a year of cricket, and it was my first since being in the England team, so I’m very happy to be back, touch wood.
Jofra Archer
The fact that these fans don’t understand that a ring is comprised of steel, metal beams, wood, and a thin sheet mat, and that’s it.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman
As I enjoy making knick knacks out of wood, I visit my friend’s workshop to craft them.
Biju Menon
There’s great food everywhere, and even McDonald’s uses nice wood now.
Spike Jonze
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.
Daniel Radcliffe
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes becau

Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
David Linley
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
Philip Pullman
With ‘Louis Wain,’ it’s a very eccentric film and we had an incredible time. I never thought that me, Sharon Rooney, Andrea Riseborough and Aimee Lou Wood would get to be in the same family. None of us are cat people though, which when you have 20 cats on set is hilarious.
Stacy Martin
There’s a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can’t miss the wood for the trees.
Elvira Nabiullina
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I’m getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Guy Clark
Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
Lana Parrilla
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Athenaeus
I had to learn how to chop wood actually – I don’t think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
Jennifer Lawrence
I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.
Emma Forrest
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
Mr. T
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
Robert Duvall
A tree’s wood is also its memoir.
Hope Jahren
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
Evangeline Lilly
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
John Tenniel
There’s something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.
Rain Dove
The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access to through precipitation.
Hope Jahren
There’s nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand. There is more life in a dead tree than in a living tree: around 2,000 animal species in the UK rely on dead or dying wood for their survival.
George Monbiot
Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth
Unlike charcoal grills, which take up to 30 minutes or more to heat up, wood pellet grills can give off an even heat quite quickly. And, unlike propane grills which heat up quickly but lack flavor, foods cooked on pellet grills are rich in smokiness and succulence.
Homaro Cantu
I’m very excited by biomass and biofuels. We have a company, KiOR, that turns biomass – for instance, wood chips – into gasoline. The potential value of this company is huge. It could compete with regular crude oil without subsidies.
Vinod Khosla
When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved.
Ellie Taylor
Whether it’s a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called ‘Pretty Persuasion.’ She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.
Elisabeth Harnois
I like to say we can make anything in wood.
David Linley
When I first started working on ‘The Wood,’ these people couldn’t grasp the concept that, one, there is a black middle class, and, two, Inglewood is a part of it.
Rick Famuyiwa
I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.
Shane Warne
I’m always tinkering with something – suddenly I’ll think I can work with wood, but then I’ll realize I can’t, so I go back to sewing.
Melissa McCarthy