Tree Nurture

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If the sky falls, hold up your hands. - Spanish proverb

The apple will fall under the apple tree. - Greek Proverb

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. - John C Maxwell

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands. - Unknown

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

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

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding. - John Glover

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

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. - Charles Spurgeon

Growth is the process of responding positively to change. - Paul Harvey

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

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

The key to a healthy lawn is to take care of what happens below ground. - Mike Bechtle

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself. - Amit Kalantri

Clients don't care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby. - Tim Williams

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it. - Dave Chappelle

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. - Maya Angelou

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what's in it. - Nancy Pelosi

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh year, I like lemons, what else ya got?" - Henry Rollins

Chocolate comes from coco, which is a tree - that makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad. - Unknown

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. - Dave Dravecky

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

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. - P.J. O'Rourke

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood

Through compassion and care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love. - Jean Hamilton-Ford

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

His wallet is more capacious than an elephant's scrotum and just as difficult to get your hands on. - Blackadder

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. - Viktor Frankl

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

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

I wouldn't pay for a personal trainer, but I would pay someone to just knock unhealthy food out of my hands. - Bill Murray

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. - Edward de Bono

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. - Audrey Hepburn

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa. - Harvey Mackay

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist. - Mark Zuckerberg

Real angels don't have gossamer white robes and cherubic skin. They have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat. - Richard Evans

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

When I was a kid, one cop could have taken care of the whole neighborhood. Now, one cop wouldn't be safe in the neighborhood. - Mike Royko

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

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

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

The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - John F Kennedy