Planting Seed Education Quotes & Sayings

As seminary students Jim and friends examined the Bible to find every reference to the poor - and they found more than two thousand. In fact, they concluded one of every sixteen verses was about the poor. Then a zealous friend decided to cut out every Bible verse about the poor to see what the Bible would look like. As he tells the story, that old Bible literally was in shreds. It wouldn't hold together. It was a Bible full of holes. — Scot McKnight

You can't be yourself unless you accept the man in the mirror — Thabiso Monkoe

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up — Cyprian Norwid

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.
No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset. — Gabrielle Zevin

Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now. — Tim Peters

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper. — Mary-Louise Parker

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. — Atul Gawande

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Varro to Brian: You always think there has to be some grand gesture, but really, there doesn't even have to be words. Just knowing something should be all the truth you need. — Mary Calmes

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil. — Maya Angelou

It was what you did when someone died; turned toward God and at least acknowledge the fact. — Diana Gabaldon