“ All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. ”
- Ray Charles- Copy
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“ A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
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“ Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants — forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father. ”
- Scott McNealy- Copy
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“ It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name. ”
- Agnes Macphail- Copy
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