Fields Quotes
2957 quotes by 2075 authors
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the…
— Ezra Pound
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,…
— Mary Oliver
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Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
— Joe Hill
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And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
— Yehuda Amichai
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You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for…
— Henry David Thoreau
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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,…
— Anton Chekhov
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The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces…
— Mary Oliver
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that…
— Salman Rushdie
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,…
— Lord Dunsany
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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
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:…
— Anton Chekhov
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