Seeds Quotes - Page 40

• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Cliffs, Edges

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Lord, Spread, Eternal

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• when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

  William S. Burroughs

  Burroughs, Grows

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• 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.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Bird, Singing

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• A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

  Nhat Hanh

  Television, Sovereignty, Humans

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Squirrels, Bird, Trying

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1999). “The Cat Who Sang for the Birds”, p.37, Penguin

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• I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

  Dean Koontz

  Baby, World, Wonder

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• Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soulmate, Kindness, Believe

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• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Tiny, Dangerous, Shattering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.160, Penguin

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• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

  Louise Erdrich

  Children, Promise, Our Actions

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• Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Art, Book

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• the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wise, Roots, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.81, Macmillan

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• Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

  Dennis Rainey

  Weed, Selfishness, Stories

  Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey (1995). “Moments Together for Couples: 365 Daily Devotions for Drawing Near to God & One Another”, p.368, Baker Books

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• Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

  Jack Kornfield

  Intention, Our Future

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• The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Frustration, Technology

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Growing Up, Flower, Culture

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.321

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• God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.

  Thea Bowman

  Grateful, Grace, Fruit

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Teenage, Years, Self

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Flower, Jewels, Orange

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Spring, Shady, Committees

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