Pruned Quotes

#1. For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Matthew Arnold

#2. Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

William Carlos Williams

#4. The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Bryant H. McGill

#5. ... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#6. Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

Sally Jo Martine

#7. Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

Alyssa Milano

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

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#9. I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look
like a chair.

Richard Schultz

#10. Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Will Durant

#11. That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Justina Chen

#12. She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.

Brandon Mull

#13. Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#14. Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

Jonathan Gottschall

#15. There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.

Frank Herbert

#16. Truth is cathartic, a way of keeping the trees pruned. The truer you can be the better it is because it simplifies life and love.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#17. Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,

Alison Gopnik

#18. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Maya Angelou

#19. You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Jean Rhys

#20. The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

Bruce Wilkinson

#21. The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

Arthur Phillips

#22. I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#23. She pulled a pillow over her head and waited to die. When an hour passed and she still wasn't dead, she got up and pruned the rosebushes.

Shannon Hale

#24. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

John Piper

#25. 'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

Coolio

#26. It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She's been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn't last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart.

Donna Lynn Hope

#27. Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Margaret Cho

#28. The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Jan Garbarek

#29. It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

Benn Northover

#30. You are free. The world is yours. got take it.

Brom