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Quotes About Seed

The great crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens in the hearts of the people. The evangelist sows the seed, and much inevitably falls upon stony ground and bears no fruit. But if only a few seeds flourish, the results are manifold.
~ Billy Graham
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
~ Billy Graham
Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.
~ Bodhidharma
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
~ Bonnie Hunt
The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.
~ Haruki Murakami
the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
There is only one way to heal your affliction. Go down to the city and bring me back a mustard seed from any house in which there has never been a death.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
~ Mark Nepo
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~ Jim Lehrer
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
~ Greg Bear
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.
~ Leo Errera
The Decision to Seed Hurricanes," a paper coauthored by Stanford professor Ron Howard.
~ Michael Lewis
GMO seed is just the latest chapter in an old story: Farmers eager to increase their yields adopt the latest innovation, only to find that it's the companies selling the innovations who reap the most from the gain in the farmer's productivity.
~ Michael Pollan
I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.
~ Amanda McBroom
To a British crossword enthusiast, the clue "An important city in Czechoslovakia" instantly suggests Oslo. Why? Look at Czech(OSLO)vakia again. "A seed you put in the garage" is caraway, while "HIJKLMNO" is water because it is H-to-O or H2O
~ Bill Bryson
The difference between herbs and spices is that herbs come from the leafy part of plants and spices from the wood, seed, fruit, or other nonleafy part.
~ Bill Bryson
Vsako dejanje, tudi najneznatnejše utegne v sebi nositi skrivnost, nevidno seme, ki lahko vzkali, ?e ga sprejmeš.
~ Susanna Tamaro
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
~ Francis Bacon
Although the church is more ancient than the Scriptures formally considered (and as to the mode of writing), yet it cannot be called such with respect to the Scriptures materially considered (and as to the substance of the doctrine) because the Word of God is more ancient than the church itself, being its foundation and seed.
~ Francis Turretin
Discontent is the seed of ethics.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have overspread the world like a syrup and the emptiness of it it's terrifying, but there is no dislodging the seed; the seed has become a little knot of cold fire which roars like a sun in the vast hollow of the dead carcass.
~ Henry Miller
I'm going to get controversial here and say that monogamy isn't natural, especially not for men. It's a concept society birthed a few hundred years ago, even though men's DNA is busy telling them to spread the seed.
~ Jameela Jamil