Quotes About Bamboo Tree

#1. But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree.

Zig Ziglar

#2. Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Gautama Buddha

#3. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman

#4. I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

Dianne Feinstein

#5. Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Matsuo Basho

#6. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

Paulo Coelho

#7. Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

Morihei Ueshiba

#8. A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle.

Colum McCann

#9. Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

Deborah Levy

#10. Suffering is when we resist the moment.

Kamal Ravikant

#11. Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

H. Rap Brown

#12. With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#13. We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Andrew Heyward

#14. Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

Michael Morpurgo

#15. There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

David Burnett

#17. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

#18. I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

Britney Spears

#19. From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

Matsuo Basho

#20. It really expresses a man in pain.

Mark Hoppus

#21. I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.

John Irving

#22. Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Karl Marx

#23. Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time ...

Bob Dylan

#24. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Jonah Lehrer