When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.
The theory of cultural bias. . . is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.
