Seeds Quotes - Page 15

• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get into your body, unless it is nice and acidic, they can't grow and multiply and make you sick - or kill you.

  Robert O. Young

  Nice, Sick, Body

  Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young (2008). “The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace

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• Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Garden

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.61, Insight Meditation Center

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• Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard seed, so small you can hardly see it. But if you will put that little faith in the person of Jesus, your life will be changed. He will come with supernatural power into your heart. It can happen to you.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate

  Pope Leo XIII

  Soul, One Day, Principles

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.347, TAN Books

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• She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

  Catherine Doherty

  Men, Grace, Glory

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• Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Divorce, Criticism, Rebellion

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• I have balls the size of grapefruits and come this Sunday, you'll be spitting out the seeds.

  Vince McMahon

  Wrestling, Sunday, Wwe

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Life Changing, Live Life

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• Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Beautiful, Death, Summer

  Eugene Kennedy (1987). “On Being a Friend”, Ballantine Books

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• Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Inspirational, Karma, Spiritual

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.52, Harmony

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• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

  Hal Porter

  Uplifting, Weed, Adventure

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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• In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Hands

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

  Peter Yarrow

  War, Moving, Long

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

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, Water, Competition

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• In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Water, Negative

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.75, Penguin

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• 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

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Doe, Would Be, Fruition

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.40, Knopf

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• Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cells, Roots, Long

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• What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

  James Thomas Fields

  Age, Youth, Produce

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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