Earl Scruggs Quotes

A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

It makes me feel young. Dancing just gives you youth. You can get lost in these moments where the day just seems better. There's something very freeing about dancing, and I love that.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

We can be confident about our qualities, but the qualities need something to come out.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

Let me go, let me go.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.