Wheat

Here are some proverbs and quotes about wheat.

Wheat
Wheat for making bread.


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A blind crow may sometimes find a grain of wheat.

A hungry hen sees herself in a wheat silo.

A hungry man is glad to get boiled wheat.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
A.E. Stevenson

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Bible

But what is the chaff to the wheat?

Even a blind dove finds a grain of wheat at times.

God gives the wheat, He doesn't bake the bread.

He knows how many grains to a bushel of wheat.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill Bryson
Source: At Home

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel.
Anthony Norvell

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material.
Robin Willams

There is no wheat without chaff.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor,
Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door;
Rudyard Kipling
Source: The Jungle Book

Wheat stalks heavy with grain learn how to bow their heads.

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat.

Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.

You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.




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