Bases Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and,…

— George Berkeley

We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on…

— Terry Eagleton

“You are a fertile God. Many seeds are dropped into the soil. Many do not sprout. Yet beneath the appearance of waste nothing is…

— Michael D. O'Brien

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection…

— Charles Heiser

The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature…

— Amado Nervo

A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy…

— Adolf Hitler

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such do not…

— Henry David Thoreau

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive…

— Samuel Johnson

“wrong. Instant gratification does not usually bring long-term peace. Our peace comes because of foundational things in our spirit and not by temporal things…

— Shannon A. Scott