Sayings about Seeds
A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. ~ Indian Proverbs
Every seed knows its time. ~ Russian Proverbs
Sorrow is the seed of wealth. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Big chickens don’t peck at small seeds. ~ Chinese Proverb
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ~ South African Proverb
He who sows the seed of discord works in the devil’s barn. ~ French Proverbs
They sowed the seed of an “if’ but it didn’t germinate. ~ Greek Proverbs
Birds are caught with seed, men with money. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Don’t stop sowing just because the birds ate a few seeds. ~ Danish Proverbs
Woman without man is like a field without seed. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
Don’t plant a seed in the sea. ~ Swahili Proverbs
They have sowed the seed of the word “tomorrow” and it has not germinated.~ Arabian Proverbs
One sesame seed won’t make oil. ~ Burmese Proverbs
The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Early flowers give no seed. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Saving mustard seeds in hand, while a watermelon escapes. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
Quotations about Seeds
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ~ Robert H. Schuller
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ~ B. C. Forbes
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream. ~ Debby Boone
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. ~ Daniel D. Palmer
Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. ~ Joseph Henry
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ~ Jesse Jackson
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. ~ James Allen
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ~ Dorothea Brande
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. ~ Charles Fillmore
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. ~ James Allen
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~ Harry S. Truman
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. ~ Morihei Ueshiba
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. ~ James Allen
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. ~ Pierre de Coubertin
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ~ Khalil Gibran
The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. ~ Robert Fritz
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. ~ Susan Taylor
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. ~ William Shakespeare
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ~ Algernon Sidney
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. ~ Martin Scorsese
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. ~ Michael Pollan
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Suggested readings : The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution.