Stalks Quotes
53 quotes by 51 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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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric…
— George W. Bush
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
— John Gardner
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red…
— William Carlos Williams
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Disaffection stalks around us.
— Dolley Madison
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
— Camille Paglia
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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
— Anne Michaels
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into…
— Adolf Galland
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If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any…
— Dave Barry
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It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
— Wallace Stevens
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The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed…
— Charles Heiser
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a…
— Galway Kinnell
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Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.
— Max Lucado
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I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of…
— Josh McDowell
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Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the…
— David Malouf
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