Transplanted Flowers Quotes & Sayings

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons. — Laozi

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious. — Susan Minot

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas

One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on loan. — David Mitchell

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values. — Jim Rohn

That's the oldest sin of all. Pride. Spiritual pride. Believing that you're better than others. Believing that you're enlightened, you're smart, you're in the know, and everyone else is stumbling about blindly in the darkness. The old us-versus-them. My group is better than your group. My people, my nation, my country, my religion, my gender, my sexual orientation. Old as sin. And it's a Big Lie. — Jerome Wilde

I'm just taking one match at a time. — Caroline Wozniacki

You can't do damage control dead. — Karen Marie Moning

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them. — Derek R. Audette

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. — Elbert Hubbard

During the actual filming, I'm not really listening to dialogue. I'm watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I'm just watching a conversation. You're not aware of exactly what people are saying. You are aware of what they are INTENDING and what kind of feeling is going on in that scene. — John Cassavetes

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. — Franjo Tudjman

Hot chocolate in Central Park! What was the Dark Tower compared to that? — Stephen King

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress. — Elbert Hubbard

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother? — Tom Hanks