“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.”
Anthony Norvell
“Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."”
Truman Capote
“(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders”
Carl Sandburg
“If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust.”
William Jennings Bryan
