Corn Quotes · Page 2

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

— Maximilian Schell

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

— Jim Thompson

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

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

— Orville Redenbacher

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

— William Bernbach

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

— Alyson Noel

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

— Michael Pollan

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”

— Garrison Keillor

“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.”

— Nickolas Butler

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

— Sharon Olds

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.

— Bo Burnham

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

— Orville Redenbacher

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

— Axl Rose

Candy corn. For Halloween that is my favorite candy, but it doesn't come around that often and I like that.

— Daniel Jacobs

Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand…

— Markie Post

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the…

— Carl Sandburg

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose…

— Emily Dickinson

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a…

— Charles Kuralt

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities,…

— George Washington

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to…

— Daniel J. Mitchell

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding…

— J. G. Holland

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds…

— Calvin Coolidge

Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab…

— Nizar Qabbani

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time…

— A. J. Liebling

“As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of…

— David Foster Wallace

There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.…

— Michael Pollan

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything…

— Will Rogers

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of…

— Tom Vilsack

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

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— Christopher Augustine Reynolds

“Before the corn comes up you can see a long way.”

— Shon Hopwood

“Indians are American aren't they? They made corn.”

— Delicia Q. Rivers-Penn

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

— James Cook

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

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

— Joanna Southcott