Seed Quotes

851 Seed quotes by 615 unique authors

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with… — Paulo Coelho
I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it like a mustard… — Christopher Moore
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow. — William S. Burroughs
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… — D. H. Lawrence
I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought,… — Markus Zusak
You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will… — Mark Z. Danielewski
A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of… — Nhat Hanh
I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or… — Dean Koontz
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things… — Barbara Kingsolver
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his… — John Steinbeck
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the… — Louise Erdrich
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that… — Orson Scott Card
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree… — Betty Smith
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. — Judith Guest
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,… — John Galsworthy
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed… — Heidi W. Durrow
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a… — Carson McCullers
A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful. — Somaly Mam
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. — Dante Alighieri
No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected… — Betty Smith

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