(67 quotes found)
“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
“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
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“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
“(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
“Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."”
Truman Capote
“You have to separate the chaff from the wheat”
Proverb
“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”
“Don't throw away the wheat with the chaff”
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
