Sown Quotes

120 Sown quotes by 110 unique authors

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
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. — Matthew Henry
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
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
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
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
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
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
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
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
We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way. — Ram Dass
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
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes
What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap. — Jose Rizal
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
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
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
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle
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

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