Plato
Philosopher
"The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants."
Plant quotes
Plant
268 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today."
Carole King
Singer-songwriter
"I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun."
Bette Lord
Author
"Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season."
Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
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"Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants."
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"I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control."
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"If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity."
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"Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight."
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"I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find."
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"What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?"
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"As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols."
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"I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding."
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"The future is about a plant-based diet."
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"If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love."
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"If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil."
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"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow."
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"Don't plant your days they turn into weeds"
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"[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered."
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"A weed is a plant out of place."
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"Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams."
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"We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light."
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"We have much to hope from the flowers."
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"The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it."
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