(466 quotes found)
“All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday”
Proverb
“Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.”
William Arthur Ward
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”
William Shakespeare
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
William Blake
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”
Confucius
“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.”
Countee Cullen
“Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.”
Og Mandino
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat”
Bible
“Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind”
Charles Fillmore