Quotes about seed
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“With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy.”

Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint

§ 73
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“When you think about it from a native plant perspective," Oyster says."Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 19

Thinking

“When we consider that resources will one day be mined from planets other than the earth, that matter and energy are totally interchangeable, and that basic chemical elements can be transmuted, we realize that resource seeds are so abundant that they do not impose practical limitations on the creation of wealth at all.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 19

Wealth

“We must present democracy as a force holding within itself the seeds of unlimited progress by the human race. By our actions we should make it clear that such a democracy is a means to a better way of life, together with a better understanding among nations.”

George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff

Essentials to Peace (1953)

Life, Making love, Way, Democracy

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

Wisdom, Knowledge, Sense

“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Learning, Winter, Time, Beauty

“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, two thousand four hundred and sixty years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

Opening statement.
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)

Men, Religion, Motivation

“Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us thy humble home;
Rise, the woman's conquering Seed,
Bruise in us the serpent's head. . . .
Adam's likeness, Lord, efface;
Stamp thine image in its place.
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.”

Charles Wesley (1707–1788) English Methodist and hymn writer

"Hymn for Christmas-Day"
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)

Love, Home

“That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”

Chigozie Obioma (1986) Nigerian writer

The fishermen (2015)

Soul

“Do you want the shining diamonds and gold, or you wish to be given the seeds that will last and bear more fruits for you in the near future?!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Future

“The blessings, same as the fertile seeds, cannot be predicted from the early stages.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I judge a man according to the legacy he left. No big names and huge monuments. All I'm looking for are the seeds that have been left, are they blooming or everything has gone in vain?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The snake that can't peel off its skin can't grow. The soul is trapped inside the body; just like a tree inside a seed.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Soul, Tree

“Only external forces with their own interests can introduce such seeds of hatred.”

Joseph Aind (1945) Indian priest

Source: Acts of vandalism in a Catholic church in Assam: alarm for Christmas http://www.fides.org/en/news/65271-ASIA_INDIA_Acts_of_vandalism_in_a_Catholic_church_in_Assam_alarm_for_Christmas (December 2018)

“That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 50

“It seems to me that an age of belief sowed the good seed of which an age of unbelief, an age at least of less fervent belief, reaps the fruits. It strikes me that the moral precepts and moral influences of Christianity needed the dogmatic teaching and the systematic discipline of past times to gain for them a hold in the world. The sower may sometimes have sowed tares along with his wheat, but the wheat has survived the tares. I believe that many a man who has little faith in Christian theology is deeply influenced by Christian morality, and that he is altogether a different man from what he would have been had Christianity never been.”

Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) English historian (1823-1892)

Source: 'The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (October 1869), quoted in E. A. Freeman, The Morality of Field Sports (1874), p. 12

Age, World, Faith, Time

“Everyone came to help to water, shovel, grow the seeds of God's Word.”

Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil (1946) Thai bishop

Source: Thailand - 50 years of Diocese of Surat Thani, land of Salesian missionaries https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/8904-thailand-50-years-of-diocese-of-surat-thani-land-of-salesian-missionaries (3 October 2019)

God, Water, Help