Tree Nurture

Kings have long hands. - Ovid

I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. - Red Skelton

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach

Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse. - Danish Proverb

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. - Thomas Fuller

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves. - James Rollins

It is much easier to take care of a sackful of fleas than a woman. - German Proverb

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

Take care of yourself. You never know when the world will need you. - Unknown

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs. - Liz Curtis Higgs

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. - H L Mencken

Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. - Henry Winkler

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me? - Groucho Marx

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. - Samuel Smiles

A horse doesn't care how much you know until it knows how much you care. - Tom Smith

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. - Val Saintsbury

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

Learning to let go of guilt and forgive yourself is part of emotional growth. - Unknown

I am not worried about the deficit. It's big enough to take care of itself. - Ronald Reagan

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. - P.J. O'Rourke

If I knew I was gong to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle

I felt sorry for myself because I had no hands until I met a man who had no chips. - Kent Andersson

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. - Japanese Proverb

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? - Martin H. Fischer

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what - Unknown

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. - Pearl Bailey

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy... nurses are rarely short on caring. - Sharon Hudacek

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. - C. JoyBell C.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Unknown

The greatest happiness love can offer is the first pressure of hands between you and your beloved. - Stendhal

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

One day you'll find someone who doesn't care about your past because they want to be your future. - Unknown

The opposite of love isn't hate - it's indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care. - Marcia Cross

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

They're picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don't care about what you look like. - Archie Bunker

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash. - Barbara McClintock

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress. - Vivienne Westwood

There is not greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical care of his people. - Dr. Elmer Hess

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to throw something back. - Maya Angelou

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. - Seth Godin

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't last, on people we don't care about. - Tim Jackson

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going. - Alison Gopnik

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture. - Tahir Shah