Quotes with seeds

  • Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
  • Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
  • Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
  • If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Robert Louis Stephenson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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  • George Eliot It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • B. W. Powe Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bill Buford Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Vernon Howard By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • C. S. Lewis Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • I. F. Stone Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Harry S. Truman Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Algernon Sidney Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Samuel Butler Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bette Davis I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Ben Vereen If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Joyce Chapman If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
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  • B. C. Forbes It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Henry van Dyke Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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