Corn Quotes

312 quotes by 236 authors

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? — Lord Byron
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. — Benjamin Franklin
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to… — John Ruskin
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by… — David Ricardo
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn. — Jesse Ventura
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .… — Red Cloud
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of… — Denis Hayes
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of… — Freeman Dyson
America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric… — George W. Bush
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities,… — David Ricardo
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
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn. — Jeremy Rifkin
All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would… — Martin Luther
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. — Bill Bryson

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