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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.


Charles Dickens

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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
BIBLE Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
BIBLE Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
BIBLE, PROVERBS 22:6 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
BIBLE Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
KING SOLOMON Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22...
BIBLE But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid...
BIBLE It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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ANDREW WYATT When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comfo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to...
BIBLE The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it ...
TSEM TULKU RINPOCHE A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
GREEK PROVERB The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
NELSON HENDERSON “Plant trees for others, whose shade you will never sit under.” ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA You can sit back when you are old and gray and remember some of the good old days.
JERMAINE DYE For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution ...
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D.M. TIMNEY You are the architect of your life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS... Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?
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CORT JENSEN They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's ...
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. Y...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off....
CORRIE TEN BOOM A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...
JOHNNY CARSON When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You should have seen this coming,’ they said. I did see it coming. I saw it coming the way you see...
MARGARET ANDREWS Bass prefer shade, especially when the sun is up, so they hang out under docks a lot. So we are goin...
EUGENE SHULER A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees ...
D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees ...
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BRANDON BOYD Please... Please

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Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
DEYTH BANGER A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.
VIKRANT PARSAI When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump of...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen ful...
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MAYA ANGELOU While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
PERSIAN PROVERB Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade
ARABIAN PROVERB I don’t think you should believe the words of a person on whose tree the crows sit most of the tim...
VIKRANT PARSAI I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON It's in the contract that they did not want to have the fig tree removed.
MARILYN COOK Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to g...
OGDEN NASH The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex o...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER When you sit on the bench it steams up, and when you skate it goes away.
BRIAN LEETCH The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
FAMKE JANSSEN Be brave and upright. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and ...
JACK KEROUAC It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
HODA KOTB the worst decisions are made under the shade of loneliness.
R.H. SIN Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth
AFRICAN PROVERB The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, C...
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MARK ROSENKER His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �...
J.A. REDMERSKI If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy tha...
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2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
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FRANCIS SPUFFORD If something excites you, go for it.
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CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS