If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you…

You'll remember me when the west wind moves. Among the fields of barley.

— Eva Cassidy

“Grains: Barley, corn, durum, fonio, Job’s tears, kamut, millet, oats, rice, rye,”

— Sarah Ballantyne

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

— Alexander Pushkin

Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by…

— Robert Burns

I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic…

— Leah D. Daughtry

When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at…

— Lewis Carroll

Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

— Bill Bryson

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor…

— Gustave Flaubert

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to…

— Charles Dickens

One of the products I swear by is Sante Barley.

— Piolo Pascual

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the…

— Peter York

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag,…

— Judy Grahn

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

— David F. Houston