Fields Quotes - Page 2

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Eye, Fire, Baptized In

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• Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Art, Nature, Cities

  "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro (Act III, Scene 1), 37 BC.

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• With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

  Islom Karimov

  Spring, Abundance, Advent

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• The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

  Christopher Fry

  School, Lines, Penalties

  "Why the penalty laws should change" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2011.

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• To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

  Donald Cram

  Change, Years, Fascination

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• Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Research, Certain, Importance

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• A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Compassion, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

  Carl Perkins

  Dream, Gold, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Architecture, Approach

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• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

  Duke of Wellington

  Battle, Eton, Great War

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 26 Dec. 1886. The earliest trace of this quotation was in Charles de Montalembert, De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre (1856). Montalembert quoted Wellington, supposedly visiting his old school, in French: "C'est ici qu'a ete gagnee la bataille de Waterloo." In fact,Wellington was a notably unenthusiastic alumnus of Eton, and Elizabeth Longford, in Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969), concludes that "probably he never said or thought anything of the kind." See O

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• We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

  Michael Shermer

  Data, Portraits, Evolution

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.232, Henry Holt and Company

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• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Edward H. Levi

  Unity, Mind, Alive

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Different, Analogies, Helping

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  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.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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• Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

  Adolf Hitler

  Freedom, Blue, Sky

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• On great fields something stays.

  Joseph Chamberlain

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• Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Gone, Spirit

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nature made the fields and man the cities.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Nature, Men, Cities

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

  David Sedaris

  People, Judging, Kind

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

  Amartya Sen

  Philosophy, Two, Unions

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