Bamboo Quotes

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  • 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.

    Bamboo   Body   Breathe  
    John Rabe (2007). “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”, p.208, Vintage
  • 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.

    Funny   Morning   Humor  
  • Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

    Men   Evil   Tree  
  • Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

    Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing
  • I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

    Stupid   Mean   Reality  
  • 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.

    Wise   Mean   Thinking  
  • As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them.

    Media   Paper   Growing  
    Source: eppc.org
  • 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?

    Believe   People   Bamboo  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.195, Penguin
  • If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

    War   Worry   Bamboo  
    "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.
  • 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.

    Paper   Bamboo   Logical  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

    Expression   Years   Tree  
    Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.
  • Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Beautiful   Dream   Tea  
    Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing
  • 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.

    Important   Rope   Bamboo  
    Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center
  • 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.

    Horse   Children   Garden  
    "Romola Garai's heroes of TV news" by Romola Garai, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.
  • The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

    Believe   Bamboo   Firsts  
    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Snakes   Long   Bamboo  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Autumn   Dark   Winter  
    Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”
  • 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.

    Heart   Bamboo   Easy  
    "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 233, 1960.
  • Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in a greenhouse in Minnesota makes no difference, nor does the age or size of the plant. They flower. Some current of an inner language passes between them, through space and separation, in ways we cannot explain in our language. They are all, somehow, one plant, each with a share of communal knowledge.

  • But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

    Jobs   Tree   Portland  
  • The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a bamboo and they'll plant it in your anus and just let it grow. So patient. Man, watch out for China, I say. They have all the ambition as we do but none of the heart.

    Funny   Heart   Ambition  
  • Heat lingers As days are still long; Early mornings are cool While autumn is still young. Dew on the lotus Scatters pure perfume; Wind on the bamboos Gives off a gentle tinkling. I am idle and lonely, Lying down all day, Sick and decayed; No one asks for me; Thin dusk before my gates, Cassia blossoms inch deep.

    Lonely   Morning   Lying  
  • From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

  • 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.

    Strong   Teaching   Tree  
    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.42, Shambhala Publications
  • Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo

    White   Bamboo   Littles  
  • The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

    Source: www.metropolismag.com
  • I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.

    Girl   Attitude   Rap  
    Song: Around the Way Girl, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out
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