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Seed Quotes

The small start behind something much bigger.

This set uses the idea of a seed to describe both encouragement and erosion, from a parent quietly planting the idea of a creative career before passing away, to a caution that repeated small dishonesty eats away at something we're born with. One line even traces revolution back to repression as its origin. Related beginnings appear in Beginning quotes.

During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew.

Quotes by Hope Jahren

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

Quotes by Horace Greeley

Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.

Quotes by Hiro Murai

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Quotes by Guru Nanak

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.

Quotes by Guru Nanak

While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.

Quotes by Gil Penchina

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Quotes by Gertrude Jekyll

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Quotes by George Washington

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as...

Quotes by George Saunders

I am the evil seed.

Quotes by Freddie Gibbs

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.

Quotes by Debra Fischer

In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad Seed' was one of them and was the first time I had seen it, and I really fell in love with it.

Quotes by David Leslie Johnson

'Podcasting House' is pivotal to the BBC's plan to scatter the seed of its various non-broadcast audio products beyond the narrow silos of the people who happen to listen to the programmes from which they arise.

Quotes by David Hepworth

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

Quotes by David Hanson

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this seed quotes collection about?
It uses the idea of a seed to describe both encouragement and erosion, from a parent quietly planting the idea of a creative career to small daily untruths eating away at something larger.
Why do people search for seed quotes?
The seed metaphor works well for both growth and gradual decline, and readers often want language that captures how small beginnings shape bigger outcomes.
Is there a quote about family influence?
Yes, one entry describes a parent planting the idea of pursuing performing arts before passing away, tracing a career back to that quiet encouragement.
Do any quotes address dishonesty or erosion of trust?
Yes, one reflection warns that small daily lies from media and institutions gradually erode something we are born with.
Where can I explore related themes?
Continue with Beginning or Growth quotes for more on origins.

Growth and decay both start small in this collection, which is what makes the seed metaphor do so much work. Continue with Growth or Origin quotes.