Planting Seeds Quotes

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

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

I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.