Seed Quotes - page 4

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower. (Edith Hamilton)
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
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, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is. View quote
Markus Zusak
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk. View quote
Andrew Weil
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them. View quote
Steven Seagal
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest. View quote
Philip Yancey
Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. (George S. Clason)
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard. View quote
Curtis Stone
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. View quote
Bodhidharma
Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection. View quote
Kay Ryan
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. View quote
Adam Clarke
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her. View quote
Bonnie Hunt
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. View quote
Bootsy Collins
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream. View quote
Debby Boone
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other. (Eric Burdon)
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. View quote
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. View quote
James Galway
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world. View quote
Jay Griffiths
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. View quote
Lynn Johnston