Quotation Explorer - 'Plant'

Kindness is the best seed to plant if you want to grow love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant. - Herta Müller
True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant! - John Paul Warren
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again. - Cora Coralina
Plant the seeds of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. - Debasish Mridha
My thoughts and imaginations are little seeds. I want them to grow tall and strong like a tree. I plant them in the soil of paper and let them grow to shade and support the world with beauty, love, joy. - Debasish Mridha
Plant seeds of kindness and watch your blessings flow abundantly - Charmaine J Forde
The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today. - James Carville
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again. - Cora Coralina
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.
Never plant a seed if you are not looking forward to the fruit. - Shampa Sharma
When life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard - an entire franchise! Or you could just stay on the Destiny Bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can. - Anthon St. Maarten
Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt. - Kenneth Eade
Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in. - Melinda Gebbie
Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care. - Debasish Mridha
Plant the trees just for beauty,If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver. - Debasish Mridha
LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - George Washington
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance. - Jay Woodman
Take the time to plant seeds even if you're unsure if they'll grow; who knows, maybe all it takes is for someone else to come along and water it. - Kai Mann
Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times - Lucy Wheelock
Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose. - Jerome K. Jerome
Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work - Paolo Coelho
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. - Hồ Chí Minh
No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions. - Andra Brynnoeglein
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill
When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love. - Revathi Sankaran
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
A rubber plant is just about the ideal family. - Haruki Murakami
The mind is the most fertile land. What you plant, it will grow. - Debasish Mridha
Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. - Bob Marley
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant. - Anthony Liccione
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. - Ken Robinson
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold. - Ambrose Bierce
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
Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. - Guru Nanak
I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? - Jalaluddin Rumi
Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life's missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance. - Debasish Mridha
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. - Greek proverb
There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens. - Paracelsus
Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses - Matthew Goldfinger
An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock. - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn’t sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow. - J.B. McGee
...if you want to add a little spice to your life, plant some dill. And learn to salsa. - Ellen DeGeneres
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - chim
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn
A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries.... - R. Buckminster Fuller
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. - Herbert Rappaport
Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you. - Taylor Patton
Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all. - L.M. Fields
Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share. - Debasish Mridha
The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate. - Israelmore Ayivor
Collectivism is the best solution for a society in harmony. It will be a success when you find a living being, plant or microorganism that it can be applied to. - Hasse Jerner
If they spit on you,collect their spittle to water your plants.If they throw stones at you,pick them up to adorn your garden.If they call you the enemy, a liar and a narcissist. Plant those very flowers: anemone, lily, and narcissus. Use their crap to fertilise your mind. - Kamand Kojouri
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
Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. - Debasish Mridha
gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body. - knight mayor
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. - Albert Einstein
Never plant a seed that seems good to eyes despite plant a seed that will be a shed in the sunlight. - merlin8thomas
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture - Paulo Coelho
A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health. - Roger Scruton
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther
To be a success, plant the seeds of dreams. Then take care of those plants. - Debasish Mridha
Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness. - James Fenimore Cooper
I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together. - Nikki Rowe
A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony. - Bertrand Russell
If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant. - Steven Magee
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
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies - Karthikeyan V
Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice? - Gasmaskman
Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time;A time to plant, a time to harvest. A time to cry, a time to laugh.A time to be sad, a time to be happy. A time to be born, a time to die. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized sewage treatment plant. - John Médaille
With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Share your dreams and they will be inspired. Plant seeds of knowledge and they will grow and reproduce beyond measure. - Terry A. O'Neal
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah
Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return. - Kamand Kojouri
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. - Emily Carr
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile! - Miguel Ruiz
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit. - Lars Frodesen
For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing.Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon. - T.R. Hummer
I am a farmer of kindness and compassion; I plant the seeds of love in my garden. - Debasish Mridha
Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. - Steven Magee
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. - Isaac Asimov
Love is like a plant...; some are planted, while other are germinated...! - Sudeep Prakash Sdk
Plant the seeds of gratitude to grow and enjoy the abundance of life. - Debasish Mridha
Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away. - Jamil Ahmad
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
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. - Jalaluddin Rumi
A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah
Friendship, just like a young green plant, needs to be nurtured. - Eraldo Banovac
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
Plant is plant. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'. - Christopher Markus
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it. - John Burroughs
We never plant trees in other people's yard and hope them to grow. We plant them in ours, water them and take care of them. We should do the same with our lives. Never lay it on others. - Saru Singhal
Where there are no changes there is no life. A plant has to change to bloom. - Debasish Mridha
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