Barns Quotes - Page 2

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  Saadi

  Perseverance, Together, Littles

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• If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

  Ross Perot

  Blessed, Clean, Egotism

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• Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

  Don DeLillo

  Impossible, White Noise

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

  James Thomas Fields

  Blessing, Journey, Doors

  James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”

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• having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Moving, Mind, Operations

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.197, Essential Library

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• The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

  Pope Gregory I

  Fire, Suffering, Wicked

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• My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Father, Ideas, House

  Sherwood Anderson (1968). “A story teller's story: a critical text”

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• Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Truth, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Home, Knows, Ifs

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

  Martha Beck

  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

  Matsuo Basho

  Moon, Burned, Brighter

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• 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

  Home, Mean, Cutting

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• Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

  Hesiod

  Sweet, Talking, Fascination

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

  Edd Roush

  Baseball, Dark, League

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• You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Home, Needs, Rooms

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• In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

  Rick Yancey

  Regret, Creepy, Prime

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• The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

  Susan Cooper

  Fall, Dark, White

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• I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Hurt, Real, Book

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wisdom, Horse, Unions

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• When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

  Wendell Berry

  Sheep, Nurse, Lambs

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• Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon.

  Mizuta Masahide

  Inspiration, Moon, I Can

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• The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

  Coventry Patmore

  Promise, Wheat, Sample

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

  Dana Carvey

  Light, Fire, Sometimes

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• Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Joy, Bags

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.132

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