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Quotes About Harvest

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
~ Santa Montefiore
The year is dying. The wind blows across the stubble and finds there is nothing left for it to shake. Only the red berries on their slender trees still seem to want to remind us of something merrier and the beat of the thresher awakens in us the thought of how much life and nourishment lies hidden in the cut-down ear of corn.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.
~ John Armstrong
If there be no seed-time there will certainly be no harvest, and the youth of life is the seed-time of life.
~ John Bright
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
~ John Bunyan
I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
~ John Burroughs
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
~ John Clayton
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
~ John Donne
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
~ Joyce Meyer
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Grant that when this day concludes and the Earth turns slowly outward to gaze into the night of space, I may bring a harvest of light and love as my gift to you.
~ Edward Hays
It was a perfect day For sowing.... Nothing undone Remained; the early seeds All safely sown. And now, hark at the rain, Windless and light, Half a kiss, half a tear, Saying good-night.
~ Edward Thomas
small pasture where corn was grown for flour and chicken feed visible through the trunks east of his position. The open spaces between the trees were as cauldrons of heat where the foliage was brown, the heads of grasses bowed to the ground as if praying for rain. He stopped in the shade and adjusted the straps of the wood and cloth basket
~ Edwin Page
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Cruelty to own people for the interests of others raises the fire of revenge in the hearts of the victims, and any enemy can misuse them for every purpose. Seed love and harvest love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love is a Soil Equality is a Seed Respect is the Water Justice is the Harvest Lacking any factor of the above mentioned; indeed, causes failure, even the collapse of unity and stability in all relationships.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
~ Eleanor of Aquitaine
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
~ Anthony Norvell
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.
~ Anton Chekhov
La tierra de Alvargonzález se colmará de riqueza, y el que la tierra ha labrado no duerme bajo la tierra».
~ Antonio Machado
He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses
~ Arabian Proverb
Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yieldsMy brother's sons are gathering stalk and root,Small wonder then my children glean in fieldsThey have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.
~ Arna Bontemps
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
~ Austin O'Malley