Quotes with wheat

  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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  • Adlai Stevenson II An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
    Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William Jennings Bryan 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?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
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  • Richard Burton As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Fred A. Allen He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Austin O'Malley Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Napoleon Hill 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
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Simone Weil What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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