Wheat Kings Quotes

#1. He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.

James Baldwin

#2. 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

#3. Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

Mark Hoppus

#4. A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

Emily Procter

#7. The future cannot be defined by men.
God foresees and foreknow the future because transcends time and all knowledgeable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

#9. all you hear are the rusty breezes/
pushing around the weathervane jesus

The Tragically Hip

#10. We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

Joy Williams

#11. I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

Jake Shears

#12. If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

Deepika Padukone

#13. I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

Simon Cowell

#14. I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

#15. The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
("The Undying Thing")

Barry Pain

#16. When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

Lionel Blue