Wheat Quotes

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)
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. View quote
Stephen Leacock
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. View quote
Norman Borlaug
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. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. View quote
Dean Karnazes
Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 makewar. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. View quote
Simone Weil
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)
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye. View quote
Daniel Levitin
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. View quote
Thomas Traherne
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat? View quote
Benjamin Graham
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. View quote
Michael Oakeshott
Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars. View quote
William Davis
I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. View quote
Austin O'Malley
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 Darwich)
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. View quote
David F. Houston
"For Russia, therefore, this building of heavy industries at a tremendous pace meant a very great sacrifice. All this construction, all this machinery that came from outside, had to be paid for, and paid for in gold and cash. How was this to be done? The people of the Soviet Union tightened their belts and starved and deprived themselves of even necessary articles so that payment could be made abroad. They sent their food-stuffs abroad, and with the price obtained for them paid for the machinery. They sent everything they could find a market for: wheat, rye, barley, corn, vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, meat, fowls, honey, fish, caviare, sugar, oils, confectionery, etc. Sending these food articles outside meant that they themselves did without them. The Russian people had no butter, or very little of it, because it went abroad to pay for machinery. And so with many other goods... View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there. View quote
Truman Capote