Plant Quotes - Page 6

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

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.

Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.