Sown Quotes
120 Sown quotes by 110 unique authors
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As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
— Matthew Henry
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Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that…
— Matthew Henry
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We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a…
— Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think…
— Mary Oliver
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Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
— Khalil
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You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America,…
— Noah Webster
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We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.
— Ram Dass
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I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably…
— Winston Churchill
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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
— Thomas Hobbes
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What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
— Jose Rizal
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The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of…
— Mother Teresa
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Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
— Henry David Thoreau
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All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
— Dalai Lama
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If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes…
— Robert Grosseteste
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the…
— Maria Montessori
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The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired…
— C.S. Lewis
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Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused…
— Swami Vivekananda
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who Wrote These Sown Quotes
110 authors contributed a total of 120 Sown Quotes, led by these top contributors: