Pruning Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife… — J C Ryle
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out… — Len Goodman
How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldnâ€™t even love a tree, a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily… — Harold B. Lee
The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their… — Menno Simons
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I… — Susan Orlean
People who donâ€™t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who donâ€™t know the… — Young-Ha Kim
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even… — Khalil Gibran
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying… — Libba Bray
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the… — Rob Bell
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking,… — Therese Fowler
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden. — Jaclyn Smith
As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how… — Robin Marantz Henig
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. — Red Auerbach
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance… — William Bligh
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife — Margaret Fuller
Our life is like a tree which is pruning itself. — Vikrant Parsai

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