Wheat Fields Quotes

• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Writing, Editors

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• 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

  Memories, Speak, Fields

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• In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Clouds

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• Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

  Austin O'Malley

  Art, Imagination, Wilderness

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• If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Shine On, Shining, Would Be

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• My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Home, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Unique, Shine On

  "Fictional character: The Fox". "The Little Prince", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Monotonous Life, Bored

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• 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

  Summer, Kissing, Light

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

  Horace Mann

  Book, Land, Library

  "Horace Mann at Antioch".

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• I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

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• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Redneck, White

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• 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

  Ocean, Thinking, Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Home, Rivers, Kansas

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• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Color, Foxes, Done

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• 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

  Heartbroken, Loss, Flying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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