Barns Quotes - Page 7

• I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Thinking, Trying, Breathe

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Equality, Men

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• Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

  Robert Jordan

  Cat, Men, Waiting

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.421, Macmillan

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