“Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing” KindDoeGrowsFieldsHairGoldSilverMetalsWheatComposingGold And Silver Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.” MenHandsChurchSleepWhiteEnemyWorstFieldsBedRingsEaseEncountersHarvestAltarsStretchingWheatWorst EnemyIndolence Author:Frederic Dan Huntington
“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.” KnowsWayHumansNamesSpeakFieldsFoodKingsCookingCelebrateFollyThriveCulinaryScornBattlefieldsWheatHuman Folly Author:Jean-Henri Fabre
“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?” IfsMenYearsMayUseMightAsksMy OwnAnswersDoubtPolicyFieldsFlowerLateGardenConvictionStrokesDomainInheritanceWheatBallotsPastures Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsDifferentRememberSawsFieldsMountainOceanFirst TimeWheatWheat Fields Author:Dennis Hopper
“Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.” LightSunFieldsKissingSummerEveningWheatHazeWheat Fields Author:Beth Orton
“In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!” ImportantBeautifulMiddleFieldsImportant ThingsCloudsStormSunshineWheatWheat Fields Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.” BelieveWantedThreeI BelieveDealsKnowingSadnessSkyLonelinessFieldsPaintingPaintBrushesWheatCloudyWheat FieldsCloudy SkiesSadness And Loneliness Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.” SpeakMemoriesFieldsWheatWheat Fields Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.” LooksMadeHandsFallSunSkyLandFieldsColorRainPraiseBlueGreenWinterGladBlessTendernessWheat Author:Rich Mullins
“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.” WorldRunningOpportunityViewsTreeEffectsFieldsReadyRedTownsProfoundTrackTinyMilesExplorationDirtPatchesWheatRailroadsOklahomaRailroad TracksDirt Roads Author:Chelsea Manning