Quotes About Farmers Wives

#1. There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hamlin Garland

#2. I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

Boris Kodjoe

#3. Often, people get a temporary high, a fleeting sense of belonging and well-being from the illusion of strength that comes from attaching themselves to gurus, without realizing that the energy they associate with the so called holy person comes from within themselves.

Indu Muralidharan

#4. I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

Tom Sizemore

#5. There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Andrew Lincoln

#6. Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

Alice Oswald

#7. When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

Kiesza

#8. My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

Vivien Leigh

#9. Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Catherine Helen Spence

#10. Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

Julian Barnes