Book Quote by Horace Mann

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

— Horace Mann

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

— Napoleon Hill

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

— Amarinder Singh

“Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts”

— Sherman Alexie

I wish I owned a bunch of farm land. I'd love to have fields full of grain.

— Ken Berry

“That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing…

— Joseph Roth

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips”

— Rachel Caine