Fields

Famous quotes containing the word fields:

“This scene was supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out. It’ll play just as well.”
—Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

“It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmer’s barn. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The world’s great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)