Quotes about Harvest

Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Adam Ferguson

Where savage nations, as in most parts of America, mix with the practice of hunting some species of rude agriculture, they still follow, with respect to the soil and the fruits of the earth, the analogy of their principal object. As the men hunt, so the women labor together; and, after they have shared the toils of the seed-time. they enjoy the fruits of the harvest in common. The field in which they have planted, like the district over which they are accustomed to hunt, is claimed as a property by the nation, but is not parceled in lots to its members.

This quotation illustrates a very interesting historical fact about white understanding of Native American concepts of property and ownership. Here is a Scottsman before the American Revolution who is writing about American Indians and their communal concept of property. The “purchases” of Indian land from individual Indians therefore has even more doubt cast on the propriety than if the whites were acting in good faith. Furguson had personally visited North America for a brief visit.

Marge Piercy

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
the planting,
after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

Anton Chekhov

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Aeschylus

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Walter Scott

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Sveyn I Forkbeard

Every man who rowed upon the sea to fish should pay the king five fish for the defense of the land. At Yule every man should pay the king a meal of malt from every harvest steading, and a leg of a three-year old ox. Every house-wife [must pay] a rock full of unspun lint, as thick as one could span with the longest fingers of the hand. Every man, foreigner or native, who went to Iceland, should pay a tax to the king.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

It is time for our great people to reap the harvest of their two revolutions.

After the first Arab Spring revolution ousting Mubaric, a military dictator, the Egyptians elected a leader, Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi then abused his powers and tried to turn Egypt into a theocracy. Huge popular protests against the Muslim Brotherhood led to el-Sisi leading a military coup where the army took over the government. Then they held elections, el-Sisi resigned from the military, and ran for President and won by a large percentage even though a small proportion of the population voted.

Henry McNeal Turner

The seeds of freedom ... have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers [abolitionists] shall shout the harvest home.

Eva Longoria

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

Bill Nye

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.

Seneca the Younger

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

Herbert Hoover

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

John Arbuthnot

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Joyce Meyer

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

George Herbert

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Homer

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Hank Haney

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

John Mott

The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.

Virginia Woolf

All the months are crude experiments,
out of which the perfect September is made.

Carl Sandburg

Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.

Hesiod

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Susan Hill

There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.

Harvest Quotes