Seeds Quotes - Page 16

• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Writing, Mean, Dark

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• The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

  Paul Horgan

  Book, Writing, Important

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• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Mother, Children, Body

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• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Years, Training

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

  Maude Barlow

  Heart, Air, Water

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• There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Government, Democracy

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• Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?

  Noel 'Razor' Smith

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Money, Spring, Insignificant Things

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• On no other ground
  Can I sow my seed
  Without tearing up
  Some stinking weed.

  William Blake

  Weed

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.109, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Growth

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• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.96, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Sky

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• He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.

  Pope Damasus I

  Faith, Brother, Believe

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• The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
  A young black male spits a sunflower seed
  in the air.

  Dred Scott

  Air, Hip Hop, Black

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• Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

  Horatius Bonar

  Wisdom, Thinking, Noble

  Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.113

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• The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life And Death, Passing Away, Essentials

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• You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.323, Penguin

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• The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Want, Misery

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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• There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

  Hal Borland

  Winter, Two, Ease

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• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Spring, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Father, Character

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.445, Best Books on

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• You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Use, Riches

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Self, Wind

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Perfection, Earth

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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