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Wheat Quotes

1.
We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Mahmoud Darwish

Authors on Wheat Quotes: John Bunyan Martin Luther Charlie Munger John Bright Robin Williams Richard Whately Aaron Sorkin Lil Herb William Shakespeare Oscar Romero Claude Chabrol Olivia Goldsmith Rick Riordan Adlai E. Stevenson Jay Leno William Davis Harris Wittels Coventry Patmore Ignatius of Antioch Simone Weil Benjamin Graham Jean-Henri Fabre Vance Havner Kelly Wearstler Chris Van Allsburg Michael Joseph Oakeshott Mahmoud Darwish Socrates David Ricardo Joe Bob Briggs Vincent Van Gogh Gwendolyn Brooks Bill Bryson
2.
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.
Oscar Romero

3.
If I am worth anything later,
I am worth something now.
For wheat is wheat,
even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Vincent Van Gogh

4.
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott

5.
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill Bryson

6.
I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.
Ignatius of Antioch

7.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks

8.
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
John Bunyan

9.
I don't really wear foreign shoes. It gotta be a pair of wheat timbs and ones I don't think I could go without those not a whole month without those.
Lil Herb

10.
I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.
Chris Van Allsburg

11.
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
John Bunyan

12.
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.
Jean-Henri Fabre

13.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

14.
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
Stephen Leacock

15.
Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!
Harris Wittels

16.
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
Coventry Patmore

17.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Simone Weil

18.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
Socrates

19.
My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.
Charlie Munger

20.
A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.
William Davis

21.
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
Thomas Traherne

22.
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
William Shakespeare

23.
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
Benjamin Graham

24.
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
Vance Havner

25.
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
Martin Luther

26.
We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
Wendell Berry

27.
The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material
Robin Williams

28.
You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is - maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something else - at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price than you buy it at. There's no other way to make money.
Milton Friedman

29.
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
Claude Chabrol

30.
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
Mordecai Richler

31.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

32.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
Garry Trudeau

33.
My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!
Kelly Wearstler

34.
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
Joe Bob Briggs

35.
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
David Ricardo

36.
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
Martin Luther

37.
Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.
Hannah Flagg Gould

38.
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

39.
I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.
Fred Ikle

40.
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
John Bright

41.
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
Aaron Sorkin

42.
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Richard Whately

43.
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.
Olivia Goldsmith

44.
Feel the wrath of wheat!
Rick Riordan

45.
You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat.
Jay Leno