Harvest Quotes

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

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

Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.