Transplanted Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. — Elbert Hubbard
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.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
You donâ€™t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterusâ€™s, do you? No, you donâ€™t see… — George Carlin
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
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
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
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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