“The seed must grow regardless
Of the fact that it’s planted in stone”
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
“Plant lots and lots of seeds and hopefully one will grow!”
Source: https://twitter.com/arjunmahadevan/status/1677775875369058304
“I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me.”
“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)
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
Emelina, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
"Ghetto Prisoners"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)
A District 2 soldier and Katniss (p. 215)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
One of Carson's yarns, as quoted by an old trapper in Edwin Legrand Sabin, Kit Carson Days (1809-1868) (1914) p. 505
Context: Well, I'll tell ye. I war down on the plains, an' the Comanches got after me. Thar war 'bout five hundred of 'em, an' they chased me. We run an' we run, an' my hoss war killed an' I clum a sort o' butte. Thar war a leetle split or cañon in it, an' I run up this. One big red rascal kep' right on my heels; my gun war busted, but I had my knife. The split narrered an' narrered, an got smaller an' smaller, an' suddenly it pinched out; an' thar I war, at the end. So I turned, with my knife, an' when he come on I struck at him. But the walls o' the split war so near together that I hit the rock, an' busted my knife squar' off at the hilt. When he seed that he give a big yell, for my scalp, an' at me he jumped.... then the Injun killed me.
