Seed Quotes

851 Seed quotes by 615 unique authors

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with… — Shunryu Suzuki
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided… — Parker J. Palmer
But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small… — Helena Rubinstein
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish,… — Robert Collier
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard of Clairvaux
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a… — Afeni Shakur
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but… — Robert Fulghum
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way… — Gwyneth Paltrow
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen.… — Gary Paul Nabhan
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. — Robert Breault
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. — George MacDonald
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. — Anna Brownell Jameson
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. — Eudora Welty
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but… — Edward Dahlberg
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad. — Marian Wright Edelman
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy. — William Gurnall
If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you. — Joel Osteen
Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds… — Robert Southey
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow… — E. Nesbit

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