Sown Quotes

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can't expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. — Dalai Lama

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. — Edward Young

You see, Layla, fools are not sown, they grow by themselves," she added then we left. — Melanie Karsak

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries. — Plautus

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not. — C.S. Lewis

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton

An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown. — George R R Martin

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way. — Ram Dass

Can I love someone ... and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. — Susan Sontag

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. — Thomas Traherne

History has shown that from times of great distress are sown the seeds of opportunity, promise, and renewal. — Sameet M. Kumar

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? — Horace

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap. — Jose Rizal

For my country," she said. "For my people. For every child you put to the pyre. Reap what you've sown, Jarl Brum. — Leigh Bardugo

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown. — Alexander Wilson

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. — James Madison

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship. — David O. McKay

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. — Samuel Richardson

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. — Marcus Buckingham

Every seed sown requires a favorable climate for multiplication. — Sunday Adelaja

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply. — Charles Spurgeon

Money needs to be sown into a fertile soil as a seed. We need to invest it for it to benefit us. — Sunday Adelaja

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. — Henry David Thoreau

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives. — Gertrude Jekyll

I must leave others to wear the laurels that I have sown. — John Adams

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home. — Ezra Taft Benson

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. — William Arthur Ward

In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown. — Faith Baldwin

A friend is a companion for the journey,
never a means to our own.
What we take we take together,
the joy we reap, we have sown. — Tom Althouse

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? — Mary Renault

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. — Emile Zola

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. — Soren Kierkegaard

I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined. — Stephen Fry

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. — Helen Keller

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. — Miranda Richmond Mouillot

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten. — C.M. Stunich

Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn. — Hans Fallada

You will definitely reap whatever you have sown — Sunday Adelaja

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped. — Octavio Paz

As you have sown so shall you reap. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

People should not expect to reap if they have not sown. — Sunday Adelaja

For every seed sown faith is a must for manifestation. — Sunday Adelaja

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. — William Harvey

I've sown all the oats I want to sow. — Stephanie Zimbalist

The hopes that, in my own heart sown,
And cherished by such sun and rain,
As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,
Have ripened to a harvest there: — Charlotte Bronte

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one. — Chinua Achebe

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

The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At — Stephen King

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. — Ellis Peters

Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They — May Sarton

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory. — Douglas MacArthur

Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; — Thomas Hardy

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown — Jackson Browne

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. — Matthew Henry

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood. — Georges Danton

No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown. — John Addington Symonds

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. — Jeremy Taylor

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown. — Robert Galbraith

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier

In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. — Edith Wharton

Focus on miracles or breakthrough makes a man to hope that he could reap where he has not sown. — Sunday Adelaja

God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful. — Thea Bowman

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. — Evelyn Glennie

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. — Anonymous

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. — Richard Le Gallienne

Where weeds are sown, weeds grow. — Jeff Wheeler

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. — Napoleon Hill

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. — Vladimir Lenin

Do not expect a harvest if you haven't sown anything! God loves people who are hardworking, who are always doing something. He helps doers — Sunday Adelaja

Have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.' — Dean Koontz

...should the Dreamers reap what they had sown, we would reap it right with them. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. — Stephen Jay Gould

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown. — Graham McNeill

The seeds of violence are sown early in life. — Betsy McAlister Groves

When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom. — Subroto Bagchi

When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them. Mark 4:15 — Beth Moore

I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas. — Heinrich Heine

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. — Yannick Noah

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill

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

Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown — Sunday Adelaja

Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith. — James Gordon Lindsay

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. — Tom Shadyac

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap." — Leo Errera

The seed has been sown that will grow one day ... to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation. — Adolf Hitler

Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown. — Sharon Gannon

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. — Horace

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man. — Ovid

The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil. — Leah Griffith

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped. — John C. Maxwell

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown. — Heather Brooke

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 — Chaim Potok