Quotes of: Plant Keyword

The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.

Halloween Hijinks

In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Noam Chomsky

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is...

Laurieann Gibson

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily Carr

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

Gustav Krupp

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that ...

Nalini Nadkarni

He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

Aisyx

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

Hunted

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

I planted the seed in her imagination, and then I farmed it. Like a fisherman.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

They desecrate Riora’s sacred temple! She will be enraged.” “Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed.” “Somebody put a plant in front of it!

No Rest for the Wicked

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

The Setting Sun

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

Tales of Hoffmann

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.

Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.

Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.

The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel