Quotes About Harvest

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

First Fruits is more than just an offering... it's a principle.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

A famous agricultural analogy to this system of karmic classifica¬ tion equates karma with rice. This makes Sanchita Karma the already grown rice that has been harvested and stored in the granary. Prarabdha Karma is the small portion of that stored rice that has been removed from storage, husked, and readied for cooking and eating. Kriyamana Karma is the rice that is now being planted in the field to produce a future crop.

So it is with blackberries. If you pull too hard, you may get the berry but you will lose the sweetness of it. On the other hand, if you leave it, it may be gone the next time you come by. Each person must find this point of equilibrium for himself.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.

A nadie le gusta aceptar que uno recoge lo que ha sembrado.

August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries.

aftermath. The after mowth, which later came to be pronounced "aftermath," is the second or later mowing, the crop of grass that springs up after the first hay mowing in early summer when the grass is best for hay. This term was used as early as the 15th century, and within a century aftermath was being applied figuratively to anything that results or follows from an event.

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.

One man gathers what another man spills

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. – Psalm 126:6

Our thoughts are like seeds that produce crops.

When spring came I dug up the garden and planted it, and weeded it, and prayed over it, and fidgeted; and almost three years of lying fallow had agreed with it, because it produced radishes the size of onions, potatoes the size of melons, and melons the size of small sheep. The herb border ran wild, and the air smelled wonderful.

The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.

You'll always reap what you sow. The chickens will always come home to roost. You'll always get what you deserve. Even the smallest good act has set in motion a good consequence.