Laurence Sterne Quotes

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

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

I want my kids to stay kids for as long as they can.

You have teams on and off the field. You have your team off the field in terms of your family, friends, and people that you work with, and then you have your team on the field. You have to give to receive and be there for people and hope that they do the same for you.

During the season, you have to grow.

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

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.