Top 39 Quotes About Bonsai
#1. If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
Michael Specter
#2. Kids aren't bonsai. Maybe instead of trying to make them beautiful to the rest of the world, you should just love them and let them grow.
Laura Florand
#3. Every bonsai
dreams of being a tall tree -
until the wind blows
Don Barnard
#4. The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.
Steven Berglas
#5. The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you
John Naka
#6. The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.
Shannon Mullen
#7. 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
#8. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.
Jonathan Messinger
#9. Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
Sloane Crosley
#10. Consider bonsai
There but for constricting bowl
Would be a giant.
Dianne Bates
#11. Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'
Christopher Hitchens
#12. The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.
John Naka
#13. I'm just trying to help"
"Do your uncle's bonsai eat meat?"
"I don't think so"
"Have you ever been bitten by one of his bonsai?"
"No."
"In that case, your uncle's bonsai are not helping us
Yann Martel
#14. There are no borders in bonsai. The dove of peace flies to palace as to humble house, to young as to old, to rich and poor. So does the spirit of bonsai.
John Yoshio Naka
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. If you are drawn to the refined, take up calligraphy or grow a bonsai.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#18. Sitting there most of the night," she said, "I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?
Theodore Sturgeon
#19. 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
#20. Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Jodi Picoult
#21. When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.
George Crook
#24. The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.
Vince Cable
#25. Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
Nadine Gordimer
#26. A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!
Michael Jordan
#27. Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through the night. It was the same voice that always showed up right before the monsters captured me. "No matter what you do, you'll never escape.
Jessica Sorensen
#28. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
Alejandro Zambra
#30. Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault - those whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca.
#31. A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.
Billy Graham
#33. I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
Jackie Collins
#35. But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
Anne Lamott
#36. That's my long, scaly, reptillian tail. And it's bigger than anyone else's."
~Dragos
Thea Harrison
#39. Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.
Ann Coulter
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