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
Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the… — Sara Shepard 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
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -… — Joseph Hume 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
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn.… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an… — George Ade 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
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land. — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find… — Pete Seeger 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
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
