1.
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
2.
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
No matter what life throws at us, remain steadfast like an oak or flexible like a reed!
3.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The human capacity for hardship is like bamboo- far more resilient than one could ever imagine initially.
4.
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
Okakura Kakuzo
5.
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
Matsuo Basho
6.
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
7.
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy
8.
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.
Matsuo Basho
9.
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
10.
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
11.
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.
Sadao Araki
12.
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
Matsuo Basho
13.
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.
John Rabe
14.
Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo
Nicki Minaj
15.
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.
Ian Somerhalder
16.
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.
Neal Stephenson
17.
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?
Laurell K. Hamilton