"A fallow field is a sin." — John Steinbeck
"A fallow field is a sin."
More Fallow Quotes
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by… — Joseph Addison
- Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. — Felicity Kendal
- Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and… — Pete Seeger
- In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas
- The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. — Jamaica Kincaid
- It is well to lie fallow for a while. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all… — Tillie Olsen
- A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been… — Georg Brandes
- Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin
- A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley