Corn Quotes · Page 5

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

— Barbara McClintock

We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just…

— Keith Belling

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

— Bobby Flay

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

— Bill Bryson

I like hot dogs. I like eggplant. I like pizza and creamed corn and beer. But I don't like Arabs.

— Zach Braff

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

— David Ricardo

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a…

— D. H. Lawrence

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages…

— Jay Leno

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet,…

— Bill Bryson

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry;…

— David Ricardo

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn,…

— Daniel Levitin

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow…

— Jonathan Swift

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

Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…

— David Hume

“The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated…

— John Darnielle

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the…

— John Ruskin

America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for…

— George W. Bush

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for…

— Alan Bock

People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with…

— Sandra Cisneros

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

— Michael Pollan

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the…

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Cesar Romero

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

— Sara Gruen

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

— John Bright

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

— Torquato Tasso

“The range of food choices is amazing. Yet if you look a little closer, you begin to discover: It’s All Corn.”

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Coke

It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable.

— Michael Pollan

This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

— Kathryn Stockett

“This is why you’re all kernels and I’m a major general. ’Cause you got corn silk in your ears.”

— Jim Butcher

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere…

— Dante Alighieri

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.

— Axl Rose

“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.”

— Richard Puz

“...is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?”

— Carl Sagan