Quotes of Planting - somelinesforyou

“ Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. ”

- Marcus Manilius

“ Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. ”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“ Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. ”

- Paramahansa Yogananda

“ The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ”

- Robert Collier

“ If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today. ”

- Joyce Chapman

“ I want death to find me planting my cabbage. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ I want death to find me planting my cabbages. ”

- Montaigne

“ A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting. ”

- Gladys Taber

“ Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge… and the longest life is too short. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ I think we can do ethically guided embryonic stem cell research. We have 100,000 to 200,000 embryos that are frozen in nitrogen today from fertility clinics. These weren't taken from abortion or something like that. They're from a fertility clinic, and they're either going to be destroyed or left frozen… ”

- John Kerry

“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”

- William J. Bennett

“ Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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