Bamboo Quotes

• Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

  Ping Fu

  Attitude, Wind, Grace

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• There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Tree, Planes

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Firsts, My Sisters Keeper

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

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• The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year.
  There´s no sign of growth.
  Not even a hint.
  The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year.
  And then the third year.
  The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year,
  but nothing shows. No growth. No anything.
  For eight years it can continue. Eight years!
  Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

  Zig Ziglar

  Eight, Years, Feet

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

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Evanescence

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

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• 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.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Mother, Stronger, Stubborn

  "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

  Steve Lacy

  Weed, Marijuana, Plant

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Evil, Tree

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• 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Easy, Break

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 233, 1960.

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• 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Important, Rope, Stones

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

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• Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

  Derek Walcott

  Memories, Body, Remember

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

  Matsuo Basho

  Learning, Tree, Plant

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• A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Eye, Garden, Play

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• 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.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strong, Teaching, Tree

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

  Sadao Araki

  War, Worry, Unions

  "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.

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• 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.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Tea

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

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• 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.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Necks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  Eddie Huang

  White, Yellow, People

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

  Elliott Smith

  Jobs, Tree, Portland

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• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoos, Animal, Sea

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• 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.

  LL Cool J

  Girl, Attitude, Rap

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

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• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  Sadao Araki

  Army, Giving, Division

  "Until They Eat Stones" by Russell Brines, (p. 254), 1944.

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• Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo

  Nicki Minaj

  White, Littles, Materialistic

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• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  Olga Broumas

  Song, Healing, Garden

  Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

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