Germinating Quotes

#1. In the United States, it is our weakness to confuse the numerical strength of an organization and the publicity attached to leaders with the germinating forces that sow the seeds of social upheaval in our community.

Malcolm X

#2. If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

Napoleon Hill

#3. During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

Martha Beck

#4. We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls," she told him. "Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do - at best - is prevent it from germinating.

David Gemmell

#5. Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground.

Marty Rubin

#6. I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Aleksandar Hemon

#7. However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

Lin Yutang

#8. We are not at the end of a rope, as it's so easy to think. Humanity can yet choose to turn direction. The moment has come to leap into action with glad hearts. The seeds are germinating. The fungi are willing. And we must be, too.

Michael Phillips

#9. To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

Egon Schiele

#10. She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion.

Edith Wharton

#11. Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.

Emile Zola

#12. it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death.

Jeff VanderMeer

#13. Life is a rotten lottery.

John Waters

#14. When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

Katherine Howe

#15. Everything about being a copy editor is top secret - by default, really - because no one else cares.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. I guess it's just so I remember where I started.

Jodi Picoult

#17. When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

Amy Tan

#18. In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.

Francis Quarles

#19. It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Evan Osnos

#21. To exist, and to love, and to worship," He said. "They're my children.

J.M. Darhower

#22. I'll teach you how to come with a man inside you. Not a boy, Addison, a man.

Ella Frank