Quotes About Fertile Ground

#1. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to those readers who like their meanings ambiguous and indeterminate and to those who prefer to discern a deeply important doctrine.

Richard T. Nash

#3. Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Michael Bassey

#4. Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

Anand Gopal

#5. What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Tim DeChristopher

#6. Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee.

Orson Scott Card

#7. Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.

Walter Isaacson

#8. I believe you can't be in authority unless you are under authority, and being under authority takes humility. Humility is the fertile ground in which a person's character grows.

Ty Schenzel

#9. The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

Leo Errera

#10. All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

#11. Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

Ramin Bahrani

#12. America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.

Dean Koontz

#14. I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

Alice McDermott

#15. Doodles were fertile ground; they were the visual evidence of heavy cognitive lifting. Although this was not always true: Ricky Lepardo was a doodler and he was not a heavy cognitive lifter.

Reif Larsen

#16. A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

#17. Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

Garey Gordon

#19. You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

Richard LaGravenese

#20. Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

Dan Brown

#21. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjold

#22. And he thought: I'm a seed.
He suddenly saw how fertile was the ground into which he had fallen, and with this realization, the terrible purpose filled him, creeping through the empty places within, threatening to choke him with grief.

Frank Herbert

#23. Illiteracy is a fertile ground for manipulation

Thabiso Monkoe

#24. By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?

Eraldo Banovac

#25. He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.

Stephen King

#26. Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#27. Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

Iyanla Vanzant

#28. Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.

Janet Lembke

#29. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

#30. I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

Zach Galifianakis

#31. When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Allen West

#32. We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

Henri Nouwen

#33. Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Marcus Buckingham

#34. The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

Miguel Ruiz

#35. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

#36. Ignorance is fertile ground.

Robert Ferrigno

#37. Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

K.d. Lang

#38. Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

Sharon Kay Penman

#39. When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

David Wolfe

#40. When the spiritual and natural orders are in cohesion, it is fertile ground for the miraculous, freedom from poverty, righteous living, healthy homes and happy holiness. Governments are righteous. Pollution and disease are eradicated from society. The perfect cohesion of Eden is restored.

John Crowder

#41. Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Tami Hoag

#42. What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Henri Nouwen

#43. Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.

Debasish Mridha

#44. I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Werner Herzog

#45. Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

Maria Rodale

#46. G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.

J. Michael Straczynski