“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
“We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered.” MenNeedsMatterYoungFightingCoursesNationsForeverFieldsKingsMountainAppealsYoung ManJust OneClimbingReservesPeersCliffsAlteredStood UpRugged Author:Eric Ludy
“What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.” PeopleMeanI CanFormNightWhiteAudienceAchieveRocksFieldsJudgingKingsFameJazzCreditInventionTitlesHallsRock N RollRock And RollRoyalRoyaltyHall Of FameRock And Roll Hall Of Fame Author:Ishmael Reed
“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.” WorldShowsHandsBigsPowerfulFieldsKingsLimitsTerrorismDirtyRomePopeBankersPractise Author:Eduardo Galeano
“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.” MenYearsMindMadeWarWholeActionSpiritOrderHoursAbilityGrowingWeekCenturyFieldsRevolutionGeniusKingsInspiredTrackDecadesAgentsGrassUpheavalSingle ManYeastGrass Growing Author:Boris Pasternak
“Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.” WorldMadeLightGirlGamesHouseDarkBoysSkyFieldsHairGrewKingsThousandQueensAutumnCrownsHandfulOnce Upon A TimeHistory Of Love Author:Nicole Krauss