quotes about Corn
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
-- Aimee Bender -
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
-- Alfred Bertram Guthrie -
So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?
-- Alyson Noel -
We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.
-- Axl Rose -
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Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'
-- Brian Regan -
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
-- Cesar Romero -
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
-- Christopher Augustine Reynolds -
I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.
-- Davey Havok -
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The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
-- David F. Houston -
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
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A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
-- David Ricardo -
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490
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Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
-- Hugh LatimerSource : Hugh Latimer (1978). “Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer”, p.42, Associated University Presse
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Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.
-- Janet Evanovich -
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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 -
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
-- Joanna SouthcottSource : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
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I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
-- Joel Salatin -
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
-- John Constable -
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Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.
-- John Constable -
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.
-- John LawsonSource : John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand
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The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.
-- John Masefield -
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.
-- Joseph Hume -
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
-- Joseph Hume -
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
-- Joseph Hume -
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
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This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes
-- Karen ChanceSource : Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.283, Penguin
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
-- Lyle Lovett -
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
-- Mary Elizabeth LeaseSource : Attributed
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What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.
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Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
-- Maud Hart Lovelace -
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
-- Meriwether LewisSource : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.146
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All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.
-- Michael Specter -
In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.
-- Mireille Guiliano -
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Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
-- R. James Woolsey, Jr. -
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
-- Robert Grosseteste -
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
-- Robert Grosseteste -
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
-- Robert GrossetesteSource : Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”
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And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
-- Robert Grosseteste -
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The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.
-- Roberto Benigni -
I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.
-- Ryan Tedder -
From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.
-- Steve Carell -
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
-- Thomas Hood -
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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.
-- Thomas Malthus -
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
-- Thomas Traherne -
Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.
-- Todd Grisham -
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
-- Torquato TassoSource : "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
-- Vinod Khosla -
Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
-- Wendell Berry -
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
-- William Bernbach -
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
-- Orville Redenbacher -
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
-- Orville Redenbacher -
The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
-- Orville Redenbacher -
In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.
-- Paul Gigot -
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
-- Homaro Cantu -
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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
-- John BrightSource : John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington