Transplanting Quotes

#1. It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

Jay Neugeboren

#2. Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.

Anita Nair

#3. Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age
flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

Thomas Guthrie

#5. Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt.

Frederick Lenz

#8. When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

Saint Augustine

#9. The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Elbert Hubbard

#10. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#11. Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Lincoln Kirstein

#12. But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Elliott Smith

#13. If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference
-Lynny

Malorie Blackman

#14. Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Jenni Rivera

#15. I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#16. The joys of love ... last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

Lisa Marie Presley

#18. You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly
-Baby Carlyle

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#19. ...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.

Wendell Berry

#20. Sooner or later, if left unaddressed, this natural human tendency will undermine the entire CPC pyramid like a chamber of magma lying beneath a mammoth volcano.

Patrick Mendis

#21. We were one, once.
One continent
that floated alone
in a sea of blue.
Time and tide and
forces that exist
without the necessity
of our belief,
pulled us, into two, into many,

Tyler Knott Gregson

#22. The snow is lovely because it has only one colour, the sea is lovely because it appears to be a completely flat surface, but both sea and snow are deep and know their own qualities.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...

Colin Thubron

#24. I've never liked the Thieves' Guild," said Teatime, without turning his head.
"Why not?"
"They ask too many questions."
"We don't ask questions," said Chickenwire quickly.

Terry Pratchett

#25. It is as if the fact that God is light, penetrating and manifesting everything, is so absolutely important that darkness and bondage can and must exist for the light's sake.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#26. You breathe too fast to be convincing,' he goaded.
'You don't breathe enough to judge me.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#27. Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jim McKay