Quotes About Seeds

#1. We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dresssing the pole with more complexity and less discernible logic. He draped some kind of fur over it on Groundhog Day and lugged out a floodlight to ensure a shadow.

George Saunders

#2. As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Lu Xun

#3. Calcium Milligrams (per 100-gram serving) Butter 20 Whole milk 118 Chickpeas 150 Collard greens 203 Parsley 203 Soybeans 226 Almonds 234 Sesame seeds 1,160 Hijiki sea vegetable 1,400

Alicia Silverstone

#4. For loss is what we live with all the time. / None knows this better than the mind should know, the mind / that wanders, and cannot tell our name, itself / all seeds and survivals, little else, poor blind.

William Bronk

#5. We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.

John Lennon

#6. Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Hal Boyle

#7. Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Carl Sagan

#8. Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

John C. Maxwell

#9. 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

#10. The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.

Rabindranath Tagore

#11. God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.

Marianne Williamson

#12. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#13. Dare to imagine. Dare to be.
Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil.
The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

Ray McGovern

#15. If with a sweeping heart I sow firstly this seeds,
If too dearly deeds I give arms long,
That will make tomorrow a better day to gift infancy's years the sunshine song,
For none cause, then has a better bottom than smiles of youth,

Mpho Leteng

#16. Life moves on, the world moves on, the seeds we plant continue to grow.

Michelle Gable

#17. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#18. If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

Magnus Scheving

#19. Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Jim Rohn

#20. I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Muriel Rukeyser

#22. All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

Theodore Dalrymple

#23. I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Charles Baudelaire

#24. In this earth,
in this immaculate field,
we shall not plant any seeds
except for compassion,
except for love.

Rumi

#25. You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

#26. War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.

Bill Carter

#27. Stories are what grow from the seeds of adventure. Seek out adventures of your own and then tell some stories.

Marty Conley

#28. Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

Jennifer Egan

#29. There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

Ted Simon

#30. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

Christina Baker Kline

#31. How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Elizabeth Smart

#32. Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.

Carolyn Coman

#33. Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Dennis Rainey

#34. There is no together anymore. Once a pomegranate breaks and all its seeds scatter in differetnt directions, you cannot put it back together.

Elif Shafak

#35. The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At

Stephen King

#36. When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.

Revathi Sankaran

#37. When you plant the seeds of love, happiness will grow in your garden.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Son, how easily an open heart can be poisoned, how quickly love becomes the seeds of rage. Life wrecks the living.

Sunil Yapa

#39. We do not know when any seed will come to fruition. We can experience the karmic results of our actions in this lifetime, in the next life, or at any time in the future. But our present actions influence which karmic seeds have the opportunity to come to fruition.

Joseph Goldstein

#40. Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

Radhe Maa

#41. My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Radhanath Swami

#42. The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

Joel Fuhrman

#43. There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Nelson Mandela

#44. I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Orson Scott Card

#45. Don't fear suffering. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The facts are always friendly. Without a little agony, none of us would bother to learn a thing. The earth has to be tilled before the seeds can be planted.

Ethan Hawke

#46. If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Bill Gates

#47. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

#48. I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

Kate Fleetwood

#49. When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

Susan Jeffers

#50. And in that hour,
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution and the pain
That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints.

William Cowper

#51. Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

Virgil

#52. As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

Andrew Weil

#53. The person who sows seeds of kindness will have a perpetual harvest.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#54. Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

George Eliot

#55. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.

Ilchi Lee

#56. The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Guy Finley

#57. Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

Sathya Sai Baba

#58. Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan L. Taylor

#59. Farmer will tell you that fertile land is much more important than better seeds.)

Seth Godin

#60. There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

William Shakespeare

#61. Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

George Bancroft

#62. Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

James Cook

#63. But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

Kent Nerburn

#64. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard De Mandeville

#65. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Maraboli

#66. There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

John Bowring

#67. Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!

Sharon Gannon

#68. Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Dalai Lama

#69. Seeds of talents and abilities have been placed in us

Sunday Adelaja

#70. Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#71. We were dandelion seeds released to the wind, she asked for no return. We are saplings now. With gentle hands.

Sarah Kay

#72. You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can't count the apples in a seed. When you teach, you never know how many lives you will influence...you are teaching for eternity

Karen Jensen

#73. Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.

Michel De Montaigne

#74. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Richard Paul Evans

#75. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

Andy Grove

#76. There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

Benjamin Rush

#77. The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

Edwin Land

#78. If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Benjamin Franklin

#79. Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Steve Alten

#80. Secure tomorrow today by sowing good seeds today and by watering them with faith and love to others.

Enock Maregesi

#81. I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Tom Waits

#82. A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Wendy Mass

#83. Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#84. I carry the seeds of your hatred,' he shouted, hurling his words to the winds, 'and I know where
to plant them.'
Yes, he thought, Thebes is the right destination for the Lion of Macedon.

David Gemmell

#85. If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

G.K. Chesterton

#86. When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

Colman Domingo

#87. As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

Seth

#88. The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.

Farrah Gray

#89. Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Seneca The Younger

#90. I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

Pete Seeger

#91. Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Kami Garcia

#92. She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

Sue Monk Kidd

#93. Scandals are like dandelion seeds
they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Ouida

#94. I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Zac Posen

#95. Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.

Jay Woodman

#96. Life is just seeds, he says shrugging. You know, you plant in the dirt you're given. It's all you've got. You water, you tend, and sometimes seeds don't take. Sometimes it all goes away from you.

Peggy Riley

#97. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Michael Jackson

#98. Are seeds of hope, yes. Of course." ... "The nocturni are the bearers of the hope seeds." ... "That's why it's such bad luck to cross them ... They carry the seeds Above, and plant them in souls where they're needed.

Lauren Oliver

#99. I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

#100. The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi