Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

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

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope Francis

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.
Genesis 1:29 (KJV)

Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman

Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
Matshona Dhliwayo

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew 17:20 (KJV)

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.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

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.
Charles Dudley Warner

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