Quotation Explorer - 'Objected'

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
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. - Clarence Darrow
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, My life has just begun. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. - G.K. Chesterton
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