Seeds Quotes - Page 25

• Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

  Greg Bear

  Stars, Children, Our World

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• Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.

  Richard Ford

  Summer, Morning, Moving

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.343, A&C Black

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• The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Art, Spring, Passion

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us seek truth everywhere;
  let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
  or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
  let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
  Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
  There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
  that will form the new ground.

  Romain Rolland

  Truth, Blow, Wind

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• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

  William Feather

  Life, Business, Eye

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• There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.

  Susan Hill

  Life, Time, Garden

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• When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

  Wangari Maathai

  Tree, Climate, Plant

  Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.12, Lantern Books

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• My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

  Edvard Munch

  Religious, Father, Angel

  Edvard Munch, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Edvard Munch (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Political, Tools

  "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

  David O. McKay

  Expression, Determined, Action

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• The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mean, Hands, Inappropriate

  "Vandana Shiva: 'Seeds must be in the hands of farmers'". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2013.

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• When you control seed, you control food.

  Vandana Shiva

  "Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically Modified Seeds". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 13, 2012.

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• You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

  Vandana Shiva

  Bacteria, Genes, Insert

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Flower, Knowing, Giving

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.105, Ardent Media

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• When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Touching, Needs, May

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• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Preacher, Word Of God

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.122, Editora Dracaena

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• The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

  Kevin DeYoung

  Pruning, Calm, Quiet

  Kevin DeYoung (2013). “Crazy Busy”, p.19, SPCK

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• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

  Mervyn Peake

  Laughter, Ignorance, Ice

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• We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing

  Europe, Justice, Half

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• It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

  George Matthew Adams

  Life, Friendship, Kindness

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• It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Numbers, Apples

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.62, Hay House, Inc

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happy, Future

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

  John Lewis

  Hatred, Political, Sowing

  "John Lewis Condemns GOP Campaign Tactics". voices.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2008.

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