Better Plants Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I grasp his salt and pepper hair to steady myself as his tongue lingers and plays, making my legs feel weak with desire.
- from The Gorgeous Girls by Marie Wilson

Marie Wilson

#3. You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.

Jessica Park

#4. A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

Jaco Pastorius

#5. Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

Martha Stewart

#6. Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Robbie Williams

#7. The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Robert Fortune

#8. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

Ferran Adria

#9. The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Mark Bittman

#10. With plants, persuasion is better than force.

Elsa Bakalar

#11. Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks.

Chris Kilham

#12. The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. Plants need to be loved the right way in order to survive. So do humans. We rely on our parents from birth to love us enough to keep us alive. And if our parents show us the right kind of love, we turn out as better humans overall. But if we're neglected . .

Colleen Hoover

#14. You bought a Ferrari but you drive it like a Fiat.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#15. Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#16. Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

Diana Kennedy

#17. An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

David Sheff

#18. What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Evan Davis

#19. In Nature, things are broken with a purpose - clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants ... so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose ...

Debashis Dey

#20. The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them.

Charles Bukowski

#21. What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

#23. In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice.

James Rollins

#24. I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.

Dana Delany

#25. It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

Jonathan Davis

#26. I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Stuart Woods

#27. Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road ... old buildings, old people on a front porch ... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. He continued to shrink as his thoughts grew.

Evan Grinde

#29. I am saying, when you make a choice, even if it's a bad one, you've played your hand. You cannot live your life as though you still held all your cards.

Susan Meissner

#30. Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went.

A.S. Byatt