Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.
Asa Gray

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
Kevin Kelly

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Saskya Pandita

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Jose Saramago

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
William Pitt

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob Marley

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
Alison Krauss

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

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
Anne Bronte

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
Michael Fish

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
Esther Williams

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
Gavin Bryars

I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.
Janine Turner

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Jacqueline Bisset

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Dorothy Malone