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Bamboo Quotes

Steve Lacy quote: "Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a..."
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. Steve Lacy
I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers? Laurell K. Hamilton
The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. Theres no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens - or doesnt happen - the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddently... Zig Ziglar
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. Ramakrishna
In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of fretted leaves like the green skins of reptiles, and waved feathery yellow bamboos with a rustle like paper. Italo Calvino
I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails. Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult quote: "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more..."
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult
Stephenie Meyer quote: "You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails...."
You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight) Stephenie Meyer
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. Michael Chabon
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair. Aldous Huxley
Neal Stephenson quote: "Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down...."
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down. From it, warring songs. Neal Stephenson
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps. David Walker
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. Derek Walcott
Elliott Smith quote: "But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading..."
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. Elliott Smith
Bruce Lee quote: "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while..."
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Bruce Lee

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