For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1, ch.1, section 3.

And the L God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 3:14^15.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 38:9.

Icall heavenand earthtorecord thisdayagainst you, that Ihaveset before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 30:19.

I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 37:25.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms126:5^6.

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:22.

But hethat received seed into the good ground ishethat heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:23.

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageö Are they withered in the sod?

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  'We Wove a Web in Childhood'.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.305^9.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

   Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?

-Keats,John
  Endymion, bk.1, l.835^42.

Each daya few more lies eat into the seed with whichwe are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  Advertisements for Myself,'First  Advertisement for Myself'.

Hombre, tienes un hijo, un hijo que te hicieron creer podr|¤a inmortalizarte llevando el germen de ti mismo por siglos de generaciones† Tu carne, Hombre, carne deleznable, carne podrida que no puede soportar el peso de tu inmortalidad. No, no hay nada de ti mismo en esa carne. ‚Tu hijo no te hara¤   inmortal!' Man, you have a son, a son who they made you believe would make you immortal by carrying your seed through centuries of generations† Your flesh,O man, your despicable and rotten flesh that cannot bear the sight of your immortality. No: there's nothing of yourself in that flesh.Your son won't make you immortal!'

-Marque¤  s, Rene¤
  El hombre y sus suen‹  os ('Man and His Dreams'), act 2.

The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet. 786 The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

-Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus
Apologeticus, ch.50, section13.The phrase is often quoted as 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.'

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Birds of Passage','Song of the Universal', section1.