Wheat Quotes

164 quotes by 141 authors

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. — Claude Chabrol
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… — James Allen
Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a… — Michael Jackson
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to… — Simone Weil
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which… — Walter Russell
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out… — Thomas Huxley
There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither did all stand… — Edgar Cayce
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of… — Denis Hayes
I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you. — Steven Morrissey
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through… — Olivia Goldsmith
If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily… — Thomas Carlyle
So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether… — ElRay L. Christiansen
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently… — Oscar Romero
Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his… — Caryll Houselander
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg

Who Wrote These Wheat Quotes

141 authors contributed a total of 164 Wheat Quotes, led by these top contributors: