Best Barley Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.”

Pleasure Secret Attention Sweet Intense Barley

Book:Waiting for the Flood

Source: Waiting for the Flood

“a combination of all childhood memory / fields of / rice / sugarcane / wheat / barley / cows & buffaloes tilling soil / the red light / of dawn / and tomato plants...”

Fields Red Cows Rice Wheat Childhood Memory Barley For My Father Sugarcane Buffaloes

Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.”

Looks Sin Hereafter Wheat Barley

Author:John Bunyan

“the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.”

Way Persons Made Helping Found Drink Filled Wine Barley

Book:The Deipnosophists

Source: The Deipnosophists

“It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.”

Reason Character Interesting Subjects Understood Stores Psychological Consideration Interesting Characters Rum Gout Barley Great Expectations Important

Book:Tale of Two Cities

Source: Tale of Two Cities

“Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.”

Giving Children Values Virtue Depends Morality Neighbor Innocent Sugar Cannibal Barley

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.”

Song Rivers Echoes Reaper Camelot Barley

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.”

Humans Earth Accounts Plant Potatoes Corn Rice Eleven Beans Wheat Oats Barley

Book:The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.”

Succeed Weight Yield Grain Crops Acres Barley

Author:David F. Houston

“I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.”

Ifs Trying Design Beer If I Could Bent My Thoughts Good Design Barley Malt

Book:Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition

Source: Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition

“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.”

“As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.”

Stills Fall Week Fields Areas Program Standing Spread Seeds Harvest Rice Straws Barley

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.”

People World Way Speak Black White Party Violence Democratic Refuse Awake Spokes Black People Infant Democratic Party Mississippi Intimidation Delegation Barley

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.”

Way Russia Excellent Shade Soup Monotonous Cabbage Barley

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.”

Ifs Long Bits Periods Hungry Beer Pigs Better Off Starvation Barley

Author:James Cameron

“I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.”

Law Mother Cooks Chickens Vegetarian Vegetables Recipes In-laws Beans Salad Stew Mother In Law Barley Quinoa

Author:Gail Simmons

“For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

Years Kind Bits Enjoy Fields Mines Clothes Shoes Variety Bored Bother Buying Makeup Cycles Farmers Shopping Farming Crops Wheat Rotation Barley Maize

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark.”

Dark Realms Barley

Author:Libba Bray

“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”

Made Morning Angel Alcohol Dew Scotch Whisky Nipples Barley Morning Dew Scotch Whisky

Author:Warren Ellis

“Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

Bits Enjoy Fields Variety Bored Buying Shopping Farming Barley Maize

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—”

People Knows Wells Kind Children Doe Said Found Wish Sweet Hot Bitter Tone Kitchen Hopeful Sugar Soup Sour Peppers Vinegar Stingy Duchess Barley

Book:Alice's Adventures

Source: Alice's Adventures

“Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.”

Firsts Humans Earth Type Thousand Percent Accounts Plant Thirty Ancestor Potatoes Corn Rice Eleven Beans Wheat Oats Barley

Author:Bill Bryson

“They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.”

Made Body Faces Fall Left Sides Effects Drink Drunk Beer Liquor Barley

Author:Aristotle

“Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!”

Light Night Forget Moon Late Summer Persuasion Corn Careless August Heed Annie Rigs Barley

Author:Robert Burns

“The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.”

Humans Environment Plant Nine Diets Potatoes Corn Rice Beans Wheat Oats Barley

Author:Bill Bryson

“When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.”

Men World Said I Can Today Wanted Young Can Do Heard Young Man Barley

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.”

Humans May Important Products Productions Ease Milk Usefulness Wheat Barley

Author:David F. Houston

“He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides”

Mother Names Husband Mountain Green Forests Makers Princess Pearls Corn Rice Baskets Maids Keepers Providers Fawns Barley Stags Strider Flax

Book:The queen of wands: poetry

Source: The queen of wands: poetry

“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”

Way Today Air Century Fields Appreciate Smell Peaceful Wander Permanent Intimate Iron Metals Destined Fragments July Wheat Damp Sullen Unforgiving Reverberation Barley

Book:The Great War and Modern Memory

Source: The Great War and Modern Memory

“A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.”

Men Fields Bears Wine Possession Oil Silver Honey Plates Agriculture Purple Figs Barley

Author:Philemon

“One of the products I swear by is Sante Barley.”

Products Swear Barley

Author:Piolo Pascual

“The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.”

Thinking Kind Body Might Animal Failing Arms Sight Males Soil Salt Goddess Snakes Masculine Deities Mistress Goats Intrigued Inscrutable Tiptoes Barley Gazelles Woman Worth

Author:Alison Fell

“Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.”

People Thinking Children Mother Culture Fashion Baby Type Capitalism Blame Discussion Thinker Centre Tabloids Psycho Unsatisfied Boomers Baby Boomer Barley

Author:Peter York