Seeds Quotes - Page 38

• Money is the seed of money.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Character, Garden

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Garden, Zucchini

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• That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be bushes, some will bear fruits, some are for the season. My constant flow is to keep putting out quality and letting it get into the right hands.

  Salaam Remi

  Hands, Tree, Quality

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

  George Washington

  Book, 4th Of July, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Responsibility, Oil

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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

  Ellen G. White

  Faith, Harvest, Unbelief

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book II of III”, p.789, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The seed of revolution is repression.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Revolution, Revolutionary, Repression

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

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• Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

  Robert Winston

  Men, Odds, Common Purpose

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Air, Discussion

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.

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• Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Truth, Business, Mean

  "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".

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

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Time, Congratulations

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  Hanna Rosin

  Powerful, Men, Psychology

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• Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

  Anne Rice

  Space, Forests, Digital

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Responsibility, Should Have

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

  William Faulkner

  Hot, Earth, Blind

  William Faulkner (1964). “As I Lay Dying”, GoodBook Classics

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• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

  T. H. White

  Giving, Confusion, Hatred

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Struggle, Recovery

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Women, Flower, Water

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.65, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, Hope, Stars

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• I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

  George Washington

  Marijuana, India, Sowing

  George Washington's Letter to William Pearce, founders.archives.gov. February 24, 1794.

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• You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Beautiful, Believe, Love You

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• The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Virgin Suicides, Lost, Made

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• Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

  Alyssa Milano

  Garden, Enigma, Turns

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