Men We Reaped Quotes

#1. Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.

Nicholas Delbanco

#2. I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.

Anne Heche

#3. The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality
which became America's
was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

Hugh Hefner

#4. Teachers do work that is both personal and political.

Dana Goldstein

#5. I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

Terence Winter

#6. Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

Nick Offerman

#7. In ethics of life, the gender that are much discussed, are favourites.

Sol Michael

#8. There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.

James Lee Burke

#9. Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

Paulo Coelho

#10. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Jimmy Cannon

#11. To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

Olga Kurylenko

#12. I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

Sojourner Truth

#13. Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

E. E. Cummings

#15. Tradition is for the weak.

Winter Renshaw

#16. Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

Victor Hugo

#17. We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

Harriet Tubman