quotes about Saplings

last updated: November 28, 2023

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
-- Robert Jordan

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Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.
-- Sophia Lyon Fahs

Source : Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1952). “Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development”

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“[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.”
“Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.”
“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”
“Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.”

Source : Robert Lanza, Bob Berman (2013). “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe”, p.123, BenBella Books, Inc.
“I love all the soft candy. I'm not a big fan of the hard candy though.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.”
“If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.”
“He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.”
“We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.”
“Weve got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gores head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”