Best Barns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.”

“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”

Wells Home Might Law Mother Force Nature Walks Doors Fields Understood Abundance Bless Yield Shelter Penalties Laws Of Nature Relentless Mother Nature Benevolent Barns

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“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.”

Home Joy Wealth Poor Bags Worms Barns

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

May Moments Light Happens Behinds Doors Effects Pure Longing Accidents Weather Dust Relish Barns Windmills Trivial Things

Book:The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

“I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.”

Saws Air Tree Latter Swimming Spiders August Barns Hay

Author:Robert Lowell

“It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Important Country Whole Courses Grows Growing Share Land Fairs Notion Silly Soil Why Not Lions Farmers Truck County Barns Tractors County Fair

Author:Joel Salatin

“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.”

Song House Fields Summer Bird Woods Eggs Nests Swamps Barns Summer Days Jubilee

Book:Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little

Source: Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little

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

Promise Handful Wheat Sample Barns

Book:The Rod, the Root and the Flower

Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower

“How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.”

Shows House Possibility Thousand Rate Over You Farms Insects Cliffs Barns Wisconsin

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”

Ifs Littles War Light Pain Remember Mother Girl Process Hours Perfect Cities Silence Darkness Sitting Oil Pregnant Lamps Farming Spinning Barns Midwife Yarn Birthing Mares City Girl

Author:Diet Eman

“When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”

Moving Feet Bed Excitement Barns Stirrups

Author:Ann Romney

“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.”

Ideas Enough Father House South Painter Shops Ruined Harness Barns Flashy Dandy

Book:A story teller's story: a critical text

Source: A story teller's story: a critical text

“Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm -- cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.”

Knows Writing Country Situation Cutting Building Ideals Horse Endeavor Farms Cleaning Cattle Barns Hay

Author:Sam Shepard

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.”

Heart Christian Pages Dancing Suspense Dramatic Barns Horizontal Woodland Rumination Hawthorne Torque

Author:Anthony Lane

“Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.”

Moments Doors Football Soccer Analysis Moments In Time Barns

Author:Steve Staunton

“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.”

Wisdom Politics Given Born Economy Horse Unions Liberalism Collectives Communist Farmers Soviet Soviet Union Barns

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.”

People Thinking Trying Important Play Age Able Past Generations Talent Late Horse Tricks Too Late Barns Past Generations

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.”

Children Evil House Moral Principles Fields Garden Window Manners Clothings Roof Fence Drunkenness Barns

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]”

Way Wealth Poverty Empty Ads Ants No Friends Departed Barns

Author:Ovid

“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”

Use Gone Doors Horse Closing Barns

Author:John Heywood

“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”

Art Study Doors Color Painting Wings Sticks Tiny Butterfly Canvas Insects Pencils Combining Barns Butterfly Wings

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

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

Mind Moving Operations Stable Barns Mind Changing

Book:When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat

Source: When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat

“But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?”

Battle Winter Woods Mood Plenty Apples Shed Potatoes Jam Barns Cellars Hay Oats

Author:Anne Bosworth Greene

“Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.”

Enjoy Television Yeah Features Barns

Author:G.W. Bailey

“I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Funny Understanding Mets Understood Dance Ecstasy Load Jumping Barns Methodists Dehydration

Author:Victoria Wood

“A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.”

Book Four Dog Series Inspired Borders Farms Sheep Acres Barns Rural Life Collies

Author:Jon Katz

“Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldnt fly so far when we hit em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.”

Firsts Enough Used Water Break Window Ems Corn Barns

Author:Lloyd Waner

“The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?”

“The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.”

Way Seems Running Sound Voice Audience Dog Fronts Listening Radio Invisible Mysterious Beach Appetite Drifting Humorists Perks Barns Cadence Swine Headphones Mysterious Ways

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.”

Wells School Next Born Cities Land Dad High School Horse Raised My Dad Guidance Preacher Pigs Farming Crops Cattle Counselor Barns Born And Raised Nebraska Guidance Counselor

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.”

Persons Stills Strange Obsessed Hobbies Cattle Barns Hog Livestock Strange Person

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.”

Home School Three Strong Parent Memories Morning Wonderful Influence High School My Family Twenties Clock Afternoon Milk Cows Every Morning Barns Wonderful Memories

Author:Billy Graham

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

Ifs Willing Blessed Clean Egotism Barns

Author:Ross Perot

“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.”

Fall Easy Simple Creation Building Fool Criticism Strikes Substitutes Sophisticated Attacking Adages Barns Savvy Alluring Falling Off Stumps

Author:Martha Beck

“I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.”

Ifs Kind I Can Artist Sun Four Studios Coffee Experiments Teeth Get Up Get Away Brushes Barns

Author:Andrew Bird

“I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.”

Helping Behinds Tears Labor Driving Farms Desks Rolling Grandparent Manuals Barns Hay Tractors Manual Labor

Author:Kellan Lutz

“The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”

Source: Pages From An Old Volume Of Life

“We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.”

Kind May Matter Whole Earth Remember Grows Greatness Depth Casts Tolerance Dust Bosoms Umpires Rubbish Wheat Straws Sweeping Barns Composure Shrouds

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”

Ifs Men Firsts Persons Doe Enough Asks Interest Differences Wealth Safe Limits Essentials Barns

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.”

Men Stills Facts Lying Fire Fronts Cat Independence Remains Legs Mysterious Appeals Hunting Tigers Mistress Barns Uncompromising Leopards Purring

Book:Man Meets Dog

Source: Man Meets Dog

“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.”

Suffering Fire Wicked Grain Burned Barns

Author:Pope Gregory I

“The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.”

Comedy Wall Hammers Downtown Barns Crooks

Author:Lenny Bruce

“You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn.”

Ifs Bigs Might Life Is Ambition Rounds Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Barns Bubba Life Ambition

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.”

Ifs Thinking Might Happens Walks Silence Redneck Lambs Larry You Might Be A Redneck If Barns

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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.”

Knows Sometimes Light Fire Barns Armadillos

Author:Dana Carvey

“You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.”

Done Names Sex Rooms Havens Beats Forests Hills Swimming Pool Barns Swimming Pool Top Of The Hill

Author:Katie Price

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.”

Views Theory Mountain Creating Climbing Destroying Barns Climbing Mountain Skyscraper

Author:Albert Einstein

“I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.”

Ifs Looks Littles Stills Paint Compare Barns

Author:Dolly Parton

“I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.”

Should Kind Age Guy Steps Stage Music Is Concerned Dancing Folks Boots Barns Wellington

Author:Johnny Marr

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