Paddy Field Quotes

• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children, Paddy, Fields

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• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children, Fighting, Play

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

  Monica Denise Brown

  Tree, Soul, Fields

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• Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Rivers, Bed, Dry

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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