Top 517 Planted Quotes & Sayings

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

My feet are firmly planted on the ground.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

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

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Bloom where you are planted!

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

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

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

We just planted our 21st church.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

My parents never planted the seed that anything was impossible. They planted the seed that things were doubly hard for a black man. My brothers and I made sure we outworked people and were better than everyone we were around.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over them... men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.