Corn Quotes

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

  

  Nelly
  • Sucker
  • Toes
  • Corn

• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Mean
  • Used
  • Halloween

• The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Man
  • Theory
  • Raises

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

  

  Brian Regan
  • People
  • Looks
  • Asks

• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Hell
  • Farmers
  • Corn

• Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Cooking
  • Gone

• The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a living?" "Well, I don't grow corn. Get up at the crack of noon, make sure there's no corn growing. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow. And not plow. You know, we used to not grow tomatoes-but there's more money in not growing corn."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Certain

• Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Family
  • Corn
  • Kernel

• We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Corn
  • Guns N Roses

• We were missing all the unique flavors that can live in corn varieties.

  

  Rob Arnold Chimaira
  • Corn
  • Flavors

• Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Kind
  • Hungry

• If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

  

  Homaro Cantu
  • Way
  • Portions
  • Corn

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

  

  Cesar Romero
  • Toes
  • Ankles
  • Taping

• I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

  

  Joseph Hume
  • Laws
  • Monopoly
  • Corn

• She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Kissing
  • Golden
  • Breasts

• The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Children
  • Sisters
  • Not Care

• The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

  

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie
  • Christian
  • Head
  • Corn

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

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Born
  • Brown
  • Midst

• But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Fuel

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?

  

  Red Cloud
  • Country
  • Father
  • Building

• When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Country
  • Done
  • House

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