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

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

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

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

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

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

Where weeds are sown, weeds grow. — Jeff Wheeler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You will definitely reap whatever you have sown — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

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

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