"The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born"

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Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

Stephen Leacock

#Wheat Quotes #Lord Quotes #Said Quotes

“Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people.”
“No person ever gave me nothing but God.”
“For whatever you live is life.”
“No more words. Hear only the voice within.”
“Write about it by day and dream about it by night.”
“Marco Rubio has felt the wrath of Chris Christie and proved that he has a glass jaw. And I think that the question is going to be could he withstand a similar barrage from Donald Trump, who is relentless in going after the people he thinks are a threat to him.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
“When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.”

Source : "Pope Francis Brings 'New Gifts' to the Future of the Catholic Church". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.
“I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.”

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