Corn Quotes - Page 5

• Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cat, Dark

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• 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, Making Love, Ears

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winter, Men, Thinking

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• I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

  Reif Larsen

  Regret, Italian, Thinking

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.

  Jean Webster

  Writing, Yellow, White

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!     No hungry generations tread thee down;   The voice I hear this passing night was heard     In ancient days by emperor and clown:   Perhaps the self-same song that found a path      Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       She stood in tears amid the alien corn;             The same that ofttimes hath     Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam       Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Song, Home, Heart

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• 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 Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

  Metrodorus of Chios

  Space, Fields, Ears

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• Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Fire, Secret

  Khalil Gibran, “Love”

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• Little world, full of little people
  shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
  Rolling world, teeming with millions,
  carousel of the hungry,
  Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
  The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

  James Kavanaugh

  People, Rolling, World

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• 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

  Children, Team, Congratulations

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, College, Wind

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• The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Long, Crafts

  "Parlement of Foules". Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, circa 1382.

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• Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Heart, Home, Sea

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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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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• EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
  Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
  Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

  PMD

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

  Rex Stout

  Sweet, America, Essentials

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• Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

  Van Jones

  War, Government, Iraq

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• They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Looks, Pieces

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• 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, Giving Up, Father

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• An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Land, Energy

  Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press

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• The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.

  Freeman Dyson

  Air, Wind, Atmosphere

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• America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Cutting, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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