I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 3:6.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

-Goheen, Robert F(rancis)
  Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23  Jun.

Humannature will not flourish, any morethana potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Scarlet Letter,'The Custom-House'.