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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. -- Steve Lacy
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. -- Elliott Smith
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. -- Bruce Lee
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. -- Derek Walcott
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. -- Marlon Brando
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything. -- Eddie Huang
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. -- Ramakrishna
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. -- Diane Ackerman
My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless! -- Yvonne B Murtha
Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo -- Nicki Minaj
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. -- Neal Stephenson
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union. -- Sadao Araki
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. -- Jodi Picoult
Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army. -- Sadao Araki
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped. -- John Rabe
I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in. -- Noel Fielding
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved. -- Bai Juyi
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps. -- David Walker
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn -- Ramakrishna
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn. -- Matsuo Basho
Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client. -- Joan Rivers
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers. -- Rory Stewart
My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood. -- Romola Garai
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process. -- Paul Horn
When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break. -- Michelle Moran
Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit. -- Gautama Buddha
You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight) -- Stephenie Meyer
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo -- Matsuo Basho
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant. -- Matsuo Basho
I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers? -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. -- Ian Somerhalder
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced. -- Sarah Lafleur
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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