Plant Quotes - page 5

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. (Doug Larson)
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood. View quote
Joanne Harris
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. View quote
Patrick Geddes
If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand. View quote
Waris Dirie
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree. View quote
W.S. Merwin
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. View quote
Esther Williams
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes. View quote
Anna Neagle
You can plant a dream. View quote
Anne Campbell
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. View quote
Asa Gray
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. View quote
Asa Gray
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. (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. View quote
Asa Gray
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. View quote
Bootsy Collins
Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer. View quote
Chris Kilham
As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. View quote
Dichen Lachman
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. View quote
Dorothy Malone
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. View quote
Douglas Trumbull
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art. View quote
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. View quote
Gavin Bryars
Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work. (Hamdi Ulukaya)
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer. View quote
Hank Haney
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. View quote
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. View quote
Lilly Ledbetter