Bonsai Tree Sayings

#1. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Jack Gilbert

#2. The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree - they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative.

Elizabeth McCracken

#3. I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

Chris Pratt

#4. I told her the clitoris is like a Bonsai tree that needs constant tending and the g-spot is an unexplored island waiting to have a flag pinned on its peak. She laughed and said I should be a poet. Then we went to bed and crossed the sheets as if it were a new continent we had just discovered.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

Jordan Spieth

#6. Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some.

Mark Victor Hansen

#7. The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

John Naka

#8. The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

Rand Paul

#9. Synergy between thoughts and feelings
reads the universe like an opened book.

Toba Beta

#10. The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

John Naka

#11. Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. (Daniel Smythe-Smith)

Julia Quinn

#12. To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Fred Durst

#13. Every bonsai
dreams of being a tall tree -
until the wind blows

Don Barnard

#14. Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Saint Basil