Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States
"We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go."
Seeds quotes
Seeds
103 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in."
Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies."
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"In every failure lies the seeds of success."
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"Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?"
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"I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap."
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"when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow."
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"Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone."
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"Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders."
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"He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed."
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"The seed of revolution is repression."
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"Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction."
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"Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point"
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"On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed."
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"I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?""
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"Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations."
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"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."
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"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."
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"Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground"
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"Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in."
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"Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant"
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"Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted."
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"All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them."
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"There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber."
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