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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. -- Michael Pollan
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. -- Anne Bronte
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. -- Torquato Tasso
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. -- Bobby Jindal
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
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. -- Shel Silverstein
Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace? -- Richelle Mead
Corn is the only food you hold like corn. -- Dana Gould
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. -- Adam Smith
Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds. -- Wendell Berry
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening -- George Herbert
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. -- George Herbert
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains. -- John Shimkus
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. -- Cesar Romero
This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes -- Karen Chance
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. -- John Shimkus
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. -- Benjamin Franklin
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. -- Loretta Lynn
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years. -- Aaron Paul
Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. -- Carl Sandburg
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers. -- John Shimkus
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton. -- David Anders
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
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
I did a Children of the Corn remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from Battlestar Galactica is my Linda Hamilton. -- David Anders
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated. -- Richard Cobden
Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. -- David Friedman
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other. -- Will Rogers
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
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. -- David F. Houston
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
Congratulations to the new Wayne State men and women's rugby team for winning their inaugural victories on their very first weekend. I am sure there will plenty more victories for the "Children of the Corn", in the games to come. -- Brian Vizard
If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler, what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties, what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea, what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong - can you doubt we were made for each other? -- Lyle Lovett
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. -- Michael Pollan
Everyone can guess what 'Corn Flakes' tastes like, even if you've never had them. But what, pray tell, does 'High School Musical' or 'Spider-Man' cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon. -- Paul Di Filippo
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
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. -- Sam Donaldson
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. -- Jean Froissart
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 of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. -- Jonathan Swift
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. -- William Bernbach
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. -- Lewis Black
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? -- Lord Byron
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.' -- Axl Rose
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
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary. -- Alice Waters
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. -- Tori Amos
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. -- Susan Orlean
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. -- Emanuel Steward
If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp. -- Alison Sweeney
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 isn't whether our food has been modified, but how. -- Michael Specter
The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. -- Dean Karnazes
I don't know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve. -- Tom Colicchio
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. -- David Mixner
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. -- Hugo Chavez
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. -- Lewis Black
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. -- Tom Vilsack
So that's us: processed corn, walking. -- Michael Pollan
Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey. -- Luke Bryan
Never thrust your sickle into another's corn. -- Publilius Syrus
I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs. -- Bruce Rauner
I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes. -- Nelly
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. -- Orville Redenbacher
I give boring people something to discuss over corn. -- Aimee Bender
Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn. -- Mitt Romney
So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend? -- Alyson Noel
They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn. -- Jesse Ventura
Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes. -- Maximilian Schell
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. -- Christopher Augustine Reynolds
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn. -- James Cook
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land. -- Joanna Southcott
People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes. -- Nancy Reagan
I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough. -- Kevin Kling
Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn -- John Greenleaf Whittier
What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
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As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. -- Chinua Achebe
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. -- Robert Burns
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore. -- Terry Farrell
Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. -- Saadi
Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care. -- Todd Grisham
Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses. -- Anne Sexton
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways. -- Homaro Cantu
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel. -- Ken Kesey
In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars. -- Paul Gigot
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. -- Barbara McClintock
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn. -- Thomas Hood
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn."[Brigs of Ayr] -- Robert Burns
I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started. -- Ryan Tedder
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. -- Benjamin Franklin
(Matty) 'I'm going to a corn maze.'(Elliot) 'Oh, bitch. You've lost your ever-loving mind. -- Leta Blake
For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. -- Neil Gaiman
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,... -- David Ricardo
Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all. -- Nikita Khrushchev
For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid. -- Nikki Reed
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised. -- John Constable
We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc. -- Bo Burnham
This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes. -- Kathryn Stockett
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. -- Henry David Thoreau
Instead of a motorcycle, why not ride a custom-engineered unicorn? The unicorn could be genetically grown like corn. -- Jarod Kintz
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. -- Joel Salatin
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. -- Alfred Bertram Guthrie
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. -- Miguel de Molinos
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. -- Henry David Thoreau
The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bending down. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn. -- Edward Coke
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. -- Bobby Flay
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. -- Orville Redenbacher
You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next. -- Lloyd Alexander
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor -- H. L. Mencken

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