"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"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
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"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
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"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother." »Katharine Hepburn
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"A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl
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"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." »R. D. Laing
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me." »Gloria Vanderbilt
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"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
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"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
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"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
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"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray
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"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
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"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
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"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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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