Sown Quotes

"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."
-Voltaire

"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."
-Mark Twain

"Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. "
-Chinese Proverb

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

"On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"The seeds of today's problems were sown three or four decades ago."
-Leonard Horn

"Education is sown in children but must be cultivated all life long."
-Paul Carvel

"The study reinforces the message that the seeds of heart disease are sown in early life, which is why it is so important to try to alter the lifestyle of our children."
-Peter Weissberg

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

"As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap."
-Pinarius

"Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight."
-Renee Shepherd

"It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown."
-Zephyr Bloch jorgensen

"We don't expect a rapid turnaround, but the seeds of recovery are being sown."
-Loren Loverde

"The seeds of what happened here were sown in the last five and 10 years. We knew that coming in."
-Robert Ctvrtlik

"Those are things that are fueling this talk of pure politics, ... They've certainly sown the seeds of broad-based challenges to elections.... It could provoke legislatures to have uniform standards, and that could be a good thing."
-Mary Cheh

"Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted."
-Renee Shepherd

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
-Bible

"Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon."
-Cardinal Zen

"True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground."
-Edmund Spenser

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