Plant Quotes

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

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.

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.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

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.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The Lord called me to plant a church.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

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.