Husks Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the…
— Aldo Leopold
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
— William Osler
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
— Khalil Gibran
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
— William Blake
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If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten…
— Denise Chavez
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain,…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead…
— Rachel Carson
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
— Alice James
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The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a…
— Jack Kerouac
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I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made…
— Reif Larsen
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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had…
— Jennifer Egan
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Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured…
— Steven Erikson
Who Wrote These Husks Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Husks Quotes as follows: