Corn Quotes
312 quotes by 236 authors
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You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come…
— Michael Pollan
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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
— Jonathan Swift
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How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much…
— Stephen King
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other…
— Rick Riordan
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Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,…
— Michael Pollan
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Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think…
— Stephen King
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Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?…
— Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
— Sara Gruen
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The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
— George Orwell
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I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made…
— Reif Larsen
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Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down…
— Jean Webster
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! Â Â Â No hungry generations tread thee down; Â The voice I hear this passing night was heard…
— John Keats
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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any…
— Lord Byron
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
— Aimee Bender
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work…
— Oscar Wilde
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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Corn Quotes
236 authors contributed a total of 312 Corn Quotes, led by these top contributors: