Fallow Quotes
34 quotes by 30 authors
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
— Joseph Addison
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
— Felicity Kendal
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A fallow field is a sin.
— John Steinbeck
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Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they…
— Pete Seeger
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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
— Marlo Thomas
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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It is well to lie fallow for a while.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over…
— Tillie Olsen
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A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love…
— Georg Brandes
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Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
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Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a…
— William Bridges
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When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The…
— Reginald Heber
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
— Ralph Fiennes
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Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
— Cheech Marin
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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art…
— Jerry Saltz
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate…
— Orson Welles
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For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize,…
— Sophie Kinsella
Who Wrote These Fallow Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 34 Fallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: