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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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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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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• Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

  John James Audubon

  School, Made

  "Audubon's Story of His Youth".

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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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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grief, Heart, Winter

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

  Jose Rizal

  Useless Life, Stones, Becoming

  "An Asia of Tolerance and Humility That Learns from Each Other". Dinner Speech by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of the Nineteenth International Conference on "The Future of Asia", japan.kantei.go.jp. May 23, 2013.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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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