Tree Pruning Quotes

#1. Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

#3. Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#4. I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Jason Bateman

#5. I don't know where you're going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

Fall Out Boy

#6. I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Louis Finkelstein

#7. I like swordwork. It's like riding, that way - it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

Elizabeth Moon

#8. Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Reggie Jackson

#9. How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn't even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

John Major

#11. That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.

Agatha Christie

#12. Nothing happens without waiting. The seed in the ground does not become a tree overnight. It goes through seasons, nurturing, watering, pruning before it bears fruit.

Ngina Otiende

#13. A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

Andrew Wiggins

#14. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

#15. Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.

Jeff Schmidt

#16. As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

Tim Gunn

#18. Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi