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  • As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave.Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. -- Ralph Fiennes
  • Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. -- Felicity Kendal
  • Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. -- Cheech Marin
  • In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. -- Marlo Thomas
  • A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. -- John Lothrop Motley
  • The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. -- Joseph Addison
  • The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. -- Orson Welles
  • 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
  • Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on. -- Robert Grosseteste
  • The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline. -- Vinod Khosla
  • If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. -- Jerry Saltz
  • A fallow field is a sin. -- John Steinbeck
  • It is well to lie fallow for a while. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential. -- Catherine Stock
  • Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. -- Gene Black
  • Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. -- John Dewey
  • my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow -- John Geddes
  • ...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow... -- John Geddes
  • It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say. -- Emmylou Harris
  • Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ... -- Louise Imogen Guiney
  • Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds. -- George Stillman Hillard
  • The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow. -- John Steinbeck
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