Barns Quotes - Page 4

• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

  E. B. White

  Summer, Song, Eggs

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Differences, Essentials

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• I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

  John Updike

  Eye, Golf, Fog

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.20, Random House

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• The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Being Yourself, Fall

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• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.

  Ernest Sosa

  Distance, Exercise, Light

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.

  Katie Price

  Sex, Swimming, Names

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

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Boston

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Umpires, Dust

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

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• I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

  Kellan Lutz

  Grandparent, Tears, Rolling

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  Diet Eman

  Girl, Mother, Pain

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• I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Past, Thinking

  "Eastwood discusses new movie and new president". The Associated Press Interview, www.odt.co.nz. December 12, 2008.

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• I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hobbies, Strange Person, Obsessed

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

  Sara Ryan

  Mean, Two, People

  Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.125, Penguin

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• I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

  James Taylor

  Fun, Home, Guy

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

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

  Stephen King

  Wind, Cyclones, Plans

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

  Edna Lewis

  Children, Growing Up, Coffee

  Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Knopf

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• The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Boys, Two

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• I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

  Neko Case

  Eight, Piano, House

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Butterfly, Doors

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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• The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

  David Aaron Kessler

  Horse, Food, Government

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• God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Community, Stuff

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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