Tabacum Nicotiana Quotes & Sayings

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. — Kenneth Myers

Timmis and colleagues found that chloroplast genes are transferred to the nucleus at a rate of about 1 transfer in every 16 000 seeds in the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. This may not sound impressive, but a single tobacco plant produces as many as a million seeds in a single year, which adds up to more than 60 seeds in which at least one chloroplast gene has been transferred to the nucleus - in every plant, in every generation. — Nick Lane

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend! — Rupert Brooke

And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly, To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die. — William Shakespeare

Bhakti is a Social Force — Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living. — Jack White

Realizing she was only wearing a towel, she said, 'Leave.'
'I tried to. Couldn't do it. A conscience is a terrible thing to acquire. Like it or not, you and I are going to be bonded.'
'Bonded?' She shook her head, only to realize that any kind of movement made the pain worse.
His gaze swept over her towel-covered body 'It could be worse. You could be ugly.'
'Get out of my bathroom! — C.C. Hunter

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas. — Mark Batterson

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.' — Tom Preston-Werner

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw. — Mike Nichols

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope ... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. — Helen Garner