olive quotes

But beside it I have planted a green Bay-tree, A sweet Bay, an Olive, and aTurkey Fig, A Fig, an Olive, and a Bay.

- (Mary) Ursula Bethell
  From a Garden in the Antipodes,'Detail'.

And the dove came to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 8:11.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms128:3.

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.

The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto1, stanzas 8^9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.