Seed Quotes

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes. Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

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 seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.