Unharvested Quotes & Sayings

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning. — Richard E. Grant

Hannah stomps, buries, suffocates, wishes for death. "Yeah," she says. "I'm good. — Kelly Quindlen

Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women. — Lee Grant

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God takes on their cause. The Mosaic law of the Old Testament is filled with regulations to prevent and eliminate poverty. The poor were given the right to glean- to take produce from the unharvested edges of the fields, a portion of the tithes, and a daily wage. The law prevented permanent slavery by releasing Jewish bondsmen and women on the sabbatical and Jubilee year and forbade charging interest on loans. In one of his most tender acts, God made sure that the poor- the aliens, widows, and orphans- were all invited to the feasts. — Margaret Feinberg

PSA2.8 Ask of me, — Anonymous

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know. — Henry Reed

Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same ... Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not. — Laurence Steinberg

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath. — Michael Pollan

When women speak up, they run the risk of violating that gender stereotype, which leads audiences to judge them as aggressive. Voice — Adam M. Grant

It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do. — Martin Shaw

Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most. — Tristram Stuart

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. — Khaled Hosseini

For me really good acting is about subtext. — Clive Owen

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. — Anatole France