Quotes About Wheat Fields

#1. Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

Langston Hughes

#2. I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

Edward Norton

#3. When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

Dennis Hopper

#4. I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#5. As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

Carolyn Kizer

#6. There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Napoleon Hill

#7. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,
it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#9. But grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living.

John Verdon

#10. Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

Beth Orton

#11. Waves of despair rolled over him. He hadn't expected any of this: not the caved-in barns or crumbling fences, not the rotting wheat in the unplowed fields. It was as if the life had been punched right out of this place.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#12. Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

Frederic Dan Huntington

#13. It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

Metrodorus Of Chios

#14. He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Baltasar Gracian

#15. Always try to improve on your performance. Do

Donald J. Trump

#16. My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Robert B. Laughlin

#17. Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.

Bram Stoker

#18. It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

Grant-Lee Phillips

#19. Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

Rich Mullins

#20. Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet
In the bounteous field of wheat.

Hannah Flagg Gould

#21. A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

Walt Whitman

#22. The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Vincent Van Gogh

#23. Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.

Horace Mann

#24. Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe!

John Milton

#25. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

George Herbert

#26. Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness

Haruki Murakami

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Michael Dell

#28. The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Buddha

#29. Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

Brigham Young

#30. History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#31. The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Rene Magritte

#32. I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

Brian Posehn

#33. He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Jonathan Swift