Even a broken tree can bear fruit

“So like a bit of stone I lie Under a broken tree. I could recover if I shrieked My heart's agony To passing bird,…

— W.B. Yeats

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

— William Butler Yeats

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

— Rachel Caine

“One life one life and a broken tree it two trees mine a dead branch among the hundred living”

— Donald Revell

“Whatever firm decisions (nischaya) you have made; only those will bear fruit. You do not have to do anything else.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”

— JRR Tolkein

“Gossip's like jam; it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.”

— Jan Watson

“Of the thousands of flowers that blossom on a tree only a few will bear fruit. And out of those few fruits, insects and…

— Sudha Murty

A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit.

— Jeffrey Fry

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

— Abraham Maslow

“For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!”

— Andrew Lang

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

— Jimmy Carter

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

— Douglas Wilson