| "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience." »Anatole Broyard |
| "Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws." »Pope Pius XI |
| "Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity." »Clarence Cramer |
| "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 |
| "obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them." »Anthony de Mello |
| "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty." »Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| "There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow." »Martin Luther |
| "A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." »Robert Benchley |
| "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 |
| "God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty" »William Shakespeare |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure." »Valerie Polakow |
| "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport |
| "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb |
| "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 |
| "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." »C. P. Snow |
| "Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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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