Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

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

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

The moon is at her full, and riding high, floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky are all asleep tonight.
William Cullen Bryant

The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.
John Burroughs

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Drew Barrymore

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
Henry David Thoreau

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Matthew 13:44 (KJV)

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
Seymour Cray

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
Marcus Terentius Varro

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