Greatness Quote by George Herbert

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

— Sir John Davies

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

— Anonymous

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as…

— George Herbert

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

— Rumi

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.…

— Vera Nazarian

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

— Jonathan Haidt

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have…

— Betty Smith