Top 45 Reaped Quotes
#1. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish - I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and - appraised it - and taxed it - and licensed it - and staled it!
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#4. I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
Bhartrhari
#5. Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds,
Dave Eggers
#6. 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
#7. You reap what you sow - not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
Frederick William Robertson
#8. As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end.
Anne Bronte
#9. The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind
Sebastian Coe
#10. Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.
Stephen Fry
#11. An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown.
George R R Martin
#12. Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Democritus
#13. The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
Democritus
#14. And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
Arthur C. Clarke
#15. If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#16. I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.
Suzanne Collins
#17. The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
Thomas Traherne
#18. 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
#19. Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They
May Sarton
#20. My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Octavio Paz
#21. And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
Edmund Spenser
#22. It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.
Charles Darwin
#23. If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
Sascha Radetsky
#24. Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.
Laura Frantz
#25. Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
Norman Finkelstein
#26. Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.
John C. Maxwell
#27. 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
#28. The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.
Richard M. Weaver
#29. When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.
John Masefield
#30. The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.
Henri Nouwen
#31. As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.
Rick Riordan
#32. Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Spurgeon
#33. 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
#34. California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley Jr.
#35. I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
a crop of reflections to be reaped
in a winter of thorn
when icebergs of illusion will melt
to be served at high tea
and the spaces between the poles pinned down
Nancy Peters
#36. 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
#37. A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
Francis Quarles
#39. Life on a farm was fraught with hard work that reaped greater rewards ...
It was the things in life that required hard work that meant the most to her.
Sarah Price
#40. Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.
Robert Galbraith
#41. 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
#42. The workout regime he'd developed to keep his head on straight the past year had reaped positive results. Go figure - total life destruction looked good on him. He
Darien Cox
#43. Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.
Frank Press
#44. Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
Robert Green Ingersoll
