Corn On The Cob Quotes

• All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Halloween, Candy Corn

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• A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

  Anne Bronte

  Nature, Sunshine, Light

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.139, Diversion Books

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

  Torquato Tasso

  Busy, Corny, Harvest

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• 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

  Summer, Garden, Ice Cream

  "Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2008.

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• You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
  I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
  Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
  So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
  And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?

  Andre Benjamin

  Jobs, Couple, Rap

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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• 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

  Father, Beer, Church

  "Tori Amos: I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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