Vines Quotes

• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Roots, Grows

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• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Healing, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press

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• Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Remember You, Remembers You, Tree

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p.609, 1895.

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• People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

  Elizabeth Kata

  Giving, People, Support

  Elizabeth Kata (1961). “Be Ready with Bells & Drums”

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• Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Responsibility, Fruit

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• The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

  Hudson Taylor

  Jesus, Rain, Sunshine

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• Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

  Salvador Dali

  Wise, Wine, Men

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• The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

  Max Lucado

  Branches, Duty

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• Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Flower, Climbing, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.244, Library of Alexandria

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• Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Real, Catholic

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.11, New World Library

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• Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Rain, Clouds

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.229, Shambhala Publications

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

  Suzanne Collins

  Form, Turns, Remedy

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #3: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Kids, Hard Work, People

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• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison

  Fall, Angel, Godly

  "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.

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• Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Horse, Tasks, Duty

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vineyards

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Rolling

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• We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Oxygen, Essence

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• Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Learning, Tree, Masters

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• If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

  Iris Apfel

  New Experiences, People, Challenges

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• Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.

  Robert E. Murray

  Christian, Sweet, Grace

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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Simple, Branches

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