Seed Quotes

851 Seed quotes by 615 unique authors

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… — Anne Lamott
It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make… — George Washington
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… — Anne Lamott
Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of… — Dr. Seuss
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me… — Henry David Thoreau
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. — John Locke
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. — Nhat Hanh
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become… — Jonathan Safran Foer
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.… — Kurt Vonnegut
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the… — Sloane Crosley
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it. — Steven Wright
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden… — Thomas Moore
Wonder is the seed of knowledge — Francis Bacon
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
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people,… — Joel Osteen
What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. — David Zindell

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