#seed

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#around #car #drove #enjoy #f1

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. ↗

— Aesop

#evil #grow #grow up #ruin #seed

To see things in the seed, that is genius. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#see #seed #things

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#full #heart #seeds #sprout #waiting

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #apple #breeds #compulsive #devoured

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ↗

— William Blake

#harvest #learn #seed #teach #time