Sown Quotes

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. (Vladimir Lenin)
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? View quote
Mary Renault
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. View quote
Yannick Noah
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. View quote
Thomas Traherne
I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. View quote
George Washington
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. (Edith Wharton)
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown This child I to myself will take She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. View quote
William Wordsworth
Paris flared - Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. View quote
Émile Zola
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. View quote
Richard Le Gallienne
You reap what you sow - not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown. View quote
Chaim Potok
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. View quote
Mark Twain
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. (Guru Nanak Dev)
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. View quote
Voltaire
Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal. View quote
Jody Williams
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked. View quote
Mamata Banerjee
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. View quote
James Madison
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