Fields Quotes

I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. (Harriet Tubman)
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. View quote
James Meade
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields. View quote
Saddam Hussein
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. View quote
Amartya Sen
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
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. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. View quote
W. C. Fields
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. View quote
John Steinbeck
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. (Norman Borlaug)
Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. View quote
Jack Kerouac
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. View quote
Joseph Addison
There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. View quote
Willa Cather
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
William Blake
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. View quote
William Wordsworth
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. View quote
Robert Collier
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics and nothing else can replace it. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Soldier rest thy warfare oer, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. (Walter Scott)
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. View quote
Rebecca Wells
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. View quote
Charles Cooley
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. View quote
Alva Myrdal