Best 128 quotes in «corn quotes» category

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

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

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

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.

I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

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.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

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

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

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.

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

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

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.

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!

Never thrust your sickle into another's 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.

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.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

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