Top 886 Seeds Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom

Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO expert to tell him what crops to grow or what seeds to use. Give him the seeds he asks for, and he will do the rest. Don't tell him how to renovate his irrigation system: give him the necessary equipment and he will do the job far better than us.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet 1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods 2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain 3. Avoid salty and sugary foods 4. Cut down on sugar 5. Emphasize whole grains 6. Beware of alcohol 7. Emphasize the Healthy Five: Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds Sprouted seeds such as soybeans Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ Yogurt and kefir Fresh fruits and vegetables

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return - 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Seeds not planted or tended by choice tend to be weeds, so at least for me, it's very helpful to consciously and periodically choose which seeds I want to water, and to think through what I expect to happen from that watering. Investors can spend a lot of time and energy reacting to the latest bits of news and trying to predict the next surprise, rather than choosing a consistent set of daily actions that they can carry out as things develop, regardless of how they develop.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

Scatter seeds of kindness.

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

I eat apples whole, seeds and all... yes, like a horse.

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.