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"Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." »Oscar Wilde
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"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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"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic." »Alexis DeTocqueville
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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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"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges
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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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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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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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"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 in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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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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"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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"Within a stone's throw of it." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil." »Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
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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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"Under every stone lurks a politician." »Aristophanes
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"Leave no stone unturned." »Euripides
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"I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem." »Unknown
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." »Benjamin Franklin
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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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"A rolling stone gathers no moss." »Publilius Syrus
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The falling drops at last will wear the stone." »Lucretius
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