Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Wheat Fields quotes
Wheat Fields
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak."
Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it."
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"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields."
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"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield."
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