| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy |
| "I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi |
| "At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)" »Victor Hugo |
| "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." »Muhammad Ali |
| "What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport |
| "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson |
| "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb |
| "It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield |
| "By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita |
| "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray |
| "friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never." »Albert Camus |
| "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." »Dr. |
| "If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." »Chinese Proverb |
| "An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." »Albert Einstein |
| "All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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