Bamboo Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to… — Diane Ackerman
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't… — Marlon Brando
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo — Matsuo Basho
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the… — Okakura Kakuzo
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that… — Shunryu Suzuki
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over… — John Rabe
Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability… — Ping Fu
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,… — Morihei Ueshiba
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. — Steve Lacy
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's… — Bai Juyi
Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo — Nicki Minaj
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… — 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
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And… — Matsuo Basho
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant. — Matsuo Basho
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable… — Thomas A. Edison
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to… — Eddie Huang
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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