Seeds Quotes

A third peculiarity about the forest is that it exhibits a dynamic beauty. A Beethoven symphony or a poem of Shelley, a landscape by Corot or a Gothic cathedral, once it is finished becomes virtually static. But the wilderness is in constant flux. A seed germinates, and a stunted seedling battles for decades against the dense shade of the virgin forest. Then some ancient tree blows down and the long-suppressed plant suddenly enters into the full vigor of delayed youth, grows rapidly from sapling to maturity, declines into the conky senility of many centuries, dropping millions of seeds to start a new forest upon the rotting debris of its own ancestors, and eventually topples over to admit the sunlight which ripens another woodland generation.

Bob Marshall

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a socio political monster called the welfare state to exist

Barry Goldwater

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

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

Morihei Ueshiba

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind

Charles Fillmore

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict

Kofi Annan

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

Walter J Lippmann

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

Clyde Jackson Browne

It's a sign of wisdom that seeds don't squander their energy all at once, instead calmly waiting until the time is right. Seeds aren't stupid

Midas Dekkers

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Lord Byron

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

John W. Scoville

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

William Mason

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S Truman