Be like a bamboo. The higher it grows, the lower it bows.

As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how…

— George Weigel

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

— Gautama Buddha

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

— Jodi Picoult

“The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I'm the gurl wit the real big hair, bamboo earings got about two pair.

— Teyana Taylor

“With each new course, he offers up little bites of the ethos that drives his cooking, the tastes and the words playing off each…

— Matt Goulding

“We talked about how terrible the natural world could be. Of course, the bamboo is only doing what it must. Everything obeys it's own…

— Lauren Oliver

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

— Steve Lacy

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the…

— Eugen Herrigel

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

— Derek Walcott

Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo

— Nicki Minaj