Plant Quotes

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.