And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes… — John Keats Copy Share Image
But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Where else but America could football flourish, America with its millions of fertile acres of corn, soy, and wheat, its lakes of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
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