Best 128 quotes in «corn quotes» category

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

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

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

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.

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

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.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

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

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

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

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

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.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.