Wheat Quotes

• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

  Patience Strong

  Positive, Weed, Nature

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• Feel the wrath of wheat!

  Rick Riordan

  Wrath, Feels

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

  Hannah Flagg Gould

  Fields, Goodness

  Hannah Flagg Gould (1854). “Hymns and Other Poems for Children”, p.106

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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, Wheat Fields, Speak

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• In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

  Arthur Machen

  Stars, Lying, Soul

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.102, 谷月社

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• If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

  Martin Luther

  Wonder, Grain, Dies

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• The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

  Brigham Young

  Religious, Self Reliance, Gold

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.250

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• 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, Wheat Fields

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Kernel

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• The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

  James Allen

  Men, Literature, Deeds

  James Allen (2016). “Above Life's Turmoil”, p.40, BookRix

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• We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Bread, Live By, Grows

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, People, Grass

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• The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

  Stephen Leacock

  Lord, Economy, Born

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Cake, Cookery

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

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• The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Believe, Mills

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• The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

  Coventry Patmore

  Promise, Barns, Sample

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

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• My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Home, Wheat Fields, Childhood

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• From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord's counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Should Have, People, Water

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• 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

  Song, Cities, Smell

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press

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• Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Two, Fire, Flames

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• What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Feelings, Gardening

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• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Potatoes, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat.

  Jay Leno

  Morning, Breakfast, Knows

  "Enron Collapse Is Money in the Bank for Comedians". www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2002.

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