Corn Quotes - Page 7

• In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Effort, Useless

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

  Michael Specter

  Crops, Mankind, Grain

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• Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.

  Todd Grisham

  Wwe, Cracks, Care

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• I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Squirrels, Crow

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode (1967). “The best of Thoreau's journals”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Years

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Land, Support, Arrogance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2253, Library of Alexandria

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• If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Corn Flakes, Needs

  "Mitch Albom Wants You To 'Have A Little Faith'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 19, 2009.

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• First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

  Gail Simmons

  Thinking, People, Taste

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

  George Herbert

  Wind, Soul, Affliction

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.306

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• Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldnt fly so far when we hit em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.

  Lloyd Waner

  Water, Barns, Ems

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• Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using. ...

  Jesse Schell

  Book, Corn Flakes, People

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Purses

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

  Denise Chavez

  Dry, Vat, Hot

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• I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

  Sprague Grayden

  Eggs, Lunch, Apples

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• American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  War, Commitment, Terrorism

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• Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

  Vinod Khosla

  Ideas, Purpose, Biofuels

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview,, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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• I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.

  Davey Havok

  Dog, Vegan, Heard

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

  Ryan Tedder

  Dog, Selling, Music Industry

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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• My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

  Tori Amos

  Father, Beer, Corn On The Cob

  "Tori Amos: I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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• The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

  John Bright

  Law, Wheat, Quarters

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

  Jim Thompson

  Cutting, Men, Feet

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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