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Corn Quotes

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Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.
Jadakiss

Authors on Corn Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson Michael Pollan Orville Redenbacher Joseph Hume Johann Wolfgang von Goethe David Ricardo Robert Grosseteste John Constable John Greenleaf Whittier David F. Houston Mary Elizabeth Lease J. G. Holland Alyson Noel Daniel Levitin Publilius Syrus Mark Bittman Richelle Mead Cesar Romero Maud Hart Lovelace Nick Offerman R. James Woolsey, Jr. Lyle Lovett Jonathan Swift John Bright Axl Rose Horace Adam Smith Edna St. Vincent Millay Mark Twain Chinua Achebe Meriwether Lewis James Cook Denise Chavez
2.
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.
Mark Bittman

3.
I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.
Nelly

4.
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 Lawson

5.
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.

6.
What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.
Mary Elizabeth Lease

7.
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
Bobby Flay

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

9.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
Adam Smith

10.
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.

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

12.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

13.
Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.
Luke Bryan

14.
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
David Ricardo

15.
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

16.
But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.
Fred Astaire

17.
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 Lewis

18.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
Mary Elizabeth Lease

20.
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
Christopher Augustine Reynolds

21.
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin

22.
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
Mark Twain

23.
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.
David Hume

24.
Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!
John Greenleaf Whittier

25.
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
Hugh Latimer

26.
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.
Chinua Achebe

27.
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
Oscar Wilde

28.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
Horace

29.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin

30.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.
Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.
Ludwig von Mises

32.
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

33.
I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.
Ryan Tedder

34.
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

35.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael Pollan

36.
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

37.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
John Constable

39.
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

40.
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
William Bernbach

41.
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
Joanna Southcott

42.
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
Homaro Cantu

43.
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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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

45.
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
Henry David Thoreau

46.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
Robert Grosseteste

47.
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
Cesar Romero

48.
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Thomas Hood

49.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
Denise Chavez