“The seeds of who I am now had been planted. I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class.”
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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American rock musician and actor 1969Related quotes
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

“I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.”

“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”
Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 60)

On choosing a notebook for each novel that she writes in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

1870s, Speech before the Pole-Bearers Association (1875)

“I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me.”

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/niniola-femi-kuti-958136/amp/ Niniola speaking at an interview about her journey into music.