Wheat Quotes

all you hear are the rusty breezes/
pushing around the weathervane jesus — The Tragically Hip

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star. — Arthur Machen

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. — Shel Silverstein

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

Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain? — Laura Thalassa

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat. — Brigham Young

Faith is like a kernel of wheat. — Joe Bob Briggs

He was obviously proud of his Berber skin. This is the colour of wheat and gold. — Andre Aciman

Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive! — David Wolfe

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat. — John Bunyan

And you Mr. Ground-of-Wheat, Mr. Text, Mr. Is-Was,
can you calculate the ratio between wire and window . . . — Michael Palmer

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine. — Cynthia Kadohata

He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley. — John Bunyan

Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. — Ben Shahn

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology. — Mordecai Richler

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat? — Benjamin Graham

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. — Robert B. Laughlin

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Michael Oakeshott

Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta. — Bob Harper

Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars. — William Davis

Today a potato, a tomato, some wheat, lettuce, rice, a banana, and blueberries lost their lives for my sake. — Gregg Krech

Hitting his enormous body was useless. I might as well have pounded a huge leather sack filled with wheat. So — Louis L'Amour

One mg. of iron supplied by wheat is not nearly as valuable as one mg. of iron supplied by salt. — C.A. Elvehjem

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there. — Penn Jillette

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. — Truman Capote

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat. — Martine McCutcheon

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. — Max Lucado

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

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. — Fred Allen

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. — Simone Weil

The heirloom biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat. — Rick Warren

The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak. — Vincent Van Gogh

Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat! — Harris Wittels

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. — Imran Khan

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat. — Truman Capote

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat — Frank Muir

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Feel the wrath of wheat! — Rick Riordan

I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment. — Arizona Muse

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal. — Ashley Tisdale

A family of four could have enough bread for 10 years with one acre of wheat — Adam Anderson

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.' — Shari Sebbens

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same. — Carolyn Wheat

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee

My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass. — Serena Williams

She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. — Terry Pratchett

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light. — Beth Orton

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions. — Zack Wheat

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. — Coventry Patmore

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. — Elbert Hubbard

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone. — Wendell Berry

I want to open a wheat/dairy factory. Bread and butter will be my bread and butter. — Jarod Kintz

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. — Robin Hobb

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet
In the bounteous field of wheat. — Hannah Flagg Gould

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

Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many. — David Cameron

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1 — Michael Pollan

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

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time. — Bil Keane

Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like pasta; it's pretty good. I'll even substitute wheat pasta in there and make it more healthy. — Prince Fielder

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

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil. — Jorge Cruise

I recommend you don't attend the wheat and chaff bonfire. — M.J. McGuire

Wheat-Thinned Slut Monkey. — R.S. Grey

Sherlock said, 'He eats Cheerios for breakfast with our son, Sean,' and smiled. 'I eat a slice of wheat toast with crunchy peanut butter. — Catherine Coulter

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

They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat. — Erik Larson

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat ... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow. — Patience Strong

Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing. — Joanne Harris

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe. — Aaron Sorkin

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther

I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. — Ignatius Of Antioch

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. — Yuval Noah Harari

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West

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 day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without — Karen Thompson Walker

If men do not feed you, ravens shall; and if earth yields not wheat, heaven shall drop with manna. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. — Douglas Coupland

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you. — Steven Morrissey

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material — Robin Williams

Ah, I could last a long time on those smiles. I would sow and reap them like wheat. — Rachel Hartman

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. — Stephen Leacock

Gluten is found in wheat barley, rye, spelt, oats, and kamut and holds bread together and makes it rise. — Rick Warren

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained — Idries Shah

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience. — Carolyn Wheat

Anger is like a piece of shredded wheat stuck in your dentures. If you leave it there, you'll get a blister and have to eat jello for a week. — Sophia