#plant

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants. ↗

— Lewis Black

#al gore #believe #bush #eisenhower #evolution

I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay. ↗

— Dana Delany

#any #baggage #better #creating #door

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other. ↗

— Judi Dench

#because #believe #business #especially #everything

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

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 another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. ↗

— William Bligh

#augmented #caution #conduct #did #general

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 and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#civil #civil rights #clear #could #exercise

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#fame #fortune #fruit #great #great reward

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. ↗

— Sean Elliott

#detection #disease #doctor #doing #head