| "The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers." »Ted Williams |
| "When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "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 |
| "To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." »John Irving |
| "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II |
| "One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd |
| "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 |
| "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach |
| "I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis |
| "Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson |
| "That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin |
| "What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov |
| "Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." »Godfather, The |
| "A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray |
| "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 |
| "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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