Wheat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
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 -
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
-- Claude Chabrol -
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
-- Coventry Patmore -
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 -
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat
-- Frank Muir -
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.
-- Hannah Flagg Gould -
I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.
-- Ignatius of Antioch -
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
-- James Allen -
You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat
-- Jay Leno -
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
-- John Bunyan -
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 -
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
-- Martine McCutcheon -
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.
-- Metrodorus of Chios -
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
-- Michael Joseph Oakeshott -
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
-- Mordecai Richler -
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 -
I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
-- Paloma Faith -
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. ~ The Fool to Fritz in Assassin's Apprentice
-- Robin Hobb -
The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material
-- Robin Williams -
What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
-- Shel Silverstein -
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
-- Socrates -
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
-- Stephen Leacock -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!
-- Harris Wittels -
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 -
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
-- John Bright -
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