Planting Seed Quotes

37 quotes from 29 authors

Across 37 contributions, writers compare planting seeds to nurturing thoughts, habits, and ecosystems. Some stress silence as fertile soil, others draw lessons from birds that simply observe rather than cultivate. For anyone interested in growth, the sections on mindfulness practices, natural cycles, and creative habit‑forming may prove useful.

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We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

Wallace Thurman

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“There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.”

M.F. Moonzajer

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“Hiring is like planting seeds of potential. Nurture them with opportunity, and you'll harvest a garden of success.”

Dax Bamania

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

Guy Finley

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“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”

Michelle Obama

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“Legacy. What is a Legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

Krishna Das

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We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.

John Lennon

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You have to always be planting seeds because the second that you kind of think that you're in a cush position, you'll…

Katy O'Brian

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Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit…

Dennis Rainey

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This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with…

Celia Thaxter

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“When you’re starting to publicize to this world you’re breakable, you’re planting seeds into your brain to make your self feel weak.…

Deshawn Yeldell

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We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that…

Jenji Kohan

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Donald Trump has been planting seeds for over a year, warning supporters not to trust the government, the polls or the media,…

Brian Stelter

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No one knows the future, but you have to start planting seeds that will yield into nourishing fruits in future¤ Mentor

Anne Nwakama

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I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and…

Joe Lando

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I think about a young person who is sitting at home, 13 or 14, a person of color, possibly questioning their sexuality,…

Wilson Cruz

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Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay…

Thalassa Cruso

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“Each time you make a good decision or do something nice or take care of yourself; each time you show up to…

Sophia Amoruso

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What's the point of a promise, the world is full of lies, and money is never honest, true hearts fighting greed, green…

Cody Joseph

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“Microphones made me feel as if I were speaking to the whole world. I had talked to only local TV stations and…

Malala Yousafzai

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People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't…

Masanobu Fukuoka

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You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because…

Ray McGovern

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“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.…

David Mitchell

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If you go to Italy and you drive from the airport to the town, there isn't 30 square feet that isn't planted…

Mario Batali

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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a…

Celia Thaxter

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“I find it impossible, therefore, to imagine a growing and maturing church or individual Christian doing without the Psalms. And that is…

N.T. Wright

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“The Seeds of God's Words A great crowd gathered, and Jesus taught them with a story: “A farmer was planting seeds. As…

Daniel Partner

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“Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large Think of these plants as if they were shirt sizes. Shirts come in all four sizes: small,…

Mel Bartholomew

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

John Lennon

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Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Frank Auerbach

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Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

Cyndi Lee

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Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

Vikrant Parsai

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We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with…

Peter Yarrow

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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a…

Julie Moir Messervy

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I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or…

Poo Bear

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“When you’re starting to publicize to this world you’re breakable, you’re planting seeds into your brain to make yourself feel weak. -MillYentei⋆”

Deshawn Yeldell

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