Corn Quotes - Page 14

• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

  Tom Vilsack

  Opportunity, Gasoline Prices, Oil

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Husband, Crow

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• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Children, Spring, Rain

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.

  Laura Esquivel

  Love Is, Fire, Soul

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.63, Random House

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• Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

  Terry Pratchett

  Weed, Fear, Lines

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• Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

  Tony Hillerman

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

  Charles Thom

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fool, Farming, Born

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

  Michael Pollan

  Corn Syrup, Numbers, Ingredients

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.102, Penguin

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• We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

  Joel Salatin

  Mean, Doe, Needs

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• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  Gabrielle Union

  Fun, Usa, Agriculture

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

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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

  Horace

  Grind, Eating, Reason

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

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• Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Miracle, Stones, Bread

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

  Richard Cobden

  Light, Law, People

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• But let the good old corn adorn
  The hills our fathers trod;
  Still let us, for his golden corn,
  Send up our thanks to God!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Agriculture, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

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• Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Spring, Rain

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• When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.

  Cato the Elder

  Country, Wine, Next Day

  Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

  Stewart Baker

  Country, Chinese, Tanks

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• What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Birth Control

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• When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Art, Book

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Poppies, Midst

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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