Transplanted Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's…
— Jeri Ryan
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have…
— Enrique Lihn
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When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of…
— Roger Williams
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You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree…
— Valmiki
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You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see…
— George Carlin
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to…
— Mary Douglas
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In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was…
— Alan Bradley
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When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up.…
— Nichiren
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How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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,…
— Lewis Thomas
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas…
— Emily Dickinson
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If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that…
— Scott Dikkers
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who Wrote These Transplanted Quotes
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