Quotes with plant

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  • William Pitt Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Martin Luther Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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  • Bob Marley Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • John Milton Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Anne Bronte His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi 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-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Vereen If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Asa Gray It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord Chesterfield 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.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Washington Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
    Letter to James Madison, 02-03-1788
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) Closing lines of the preface.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Asa Gray Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Robert Collier Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Stephen R. Covey Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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