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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Quote by George W. Bush about power

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about poetry, fear, man

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Quote by Edward Abbey about flowers, magic

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about ability, experience, need

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about soul, things

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Quote by George W. Bush about heart, god

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Quote by Orson Scott about capitalism, garden

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Quote by Julie Christie about family, children

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about longing, nature, truth

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Quote by Jim Fowler about animals, talking

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Quote by Jim Fowler

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Quote by Tom Hanks about animals, time, people

I have been working closely with local officials to promote the valuable contributions of the plant to the nation, the state, and the local community.

Quote by Michael Oxley about work, nation, state

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Quote by Michael Oxley about work, workers

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about flowers, nature

Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet.

Quote by Katharine Lee Bates about love, world

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew

Quote by Stephen Crane about opinion, god

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Quote by Martin Luther about opinion, world

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about judgment, judges, day

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Quote by William Pitt about reliability, heart