"Several of my young acquaintances are in their……" — Luther Burbank
"Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him."
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Luther Burbank
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48 Quotes by Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank has 48 quotes on this site.
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
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Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the…
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be…
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In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically…
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
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It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
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Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
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A flower is an educated weed.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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