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“ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

Universe Given Wide Plot Toil Self Reliance Reliance Corn Kernel

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”

May Children Littles Enough Next Cutting Eating Our Children Fundamentals Plant Curiosity Winter Seeds Driven Corn Cutting Off

Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.”

Knows Prize Nutrition Corn Junk Peanuts Junk Food Crackers

Book:Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.”

Country Growing Shoes Corn

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Sometimes Happens Dies Fantasy Wonderful Fronts Sweet Mouths Standing Ears Weight Finals Teeth Apples Substitutes Making Love Corn Dilemma Bursting Solomon Hay Kernel

Author:Sara Gruen

“Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.”

Thinking Stills Hands Grows West Pockets Units Naive Corn Nebraska Soy

Author:Nora Roberts

“Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.”

Ifs Said Pops Rays Corn Popping

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.”

Knows World Ends Moments Next Know How Chickens Corn Coming To An End

Book:The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain

“This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes”

Crazy Ran Breakfast Corn Flakes Corn Flakes

Book:Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel

Source: Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel

“He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.”

Should Stills Dog Sticks Meat Los Angeles Plates Corn Bananas Cheesecake

Author:Steve Carell

“Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.”

Ifs Differences Company Environment Assuming Blow Selling Consumers Corn Coke Soda Metabolism Coca Cola Health Food Syrup Insulin Oreos Corn Syrup

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?”

Blue Girlfriend Corn Pancakes Your Girlfriend

Book:Fated

Source: Fated

“The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?”

People Years Humans Kind Enough Use Humanity Animal Poverty Millions Special Crime Billions Grain Agriculture Starving Corn Crimes Against Humanity Ethanol Animal Agriculture

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”

Looks Sometimes Might Perfect Summer Ears Corn Rotten Kernel

Author:Sara Shepard

“Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old”

Stills Grows Water Secret Quiet Red Gold Silent Forests Hills Apples Valleys Bells Corn

Book:Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)

Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)

“How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.”

Firsts Faith Grows Answers Exercise Ears Soil Blades Corn Great Faith Moisture

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.”

Half Food Produce Huge Amount Fuel Zone Pollution Fossils Corn Corny Fossil Fuel Contributing Poisoning Erosion Gallons Burning Fossil Fuels Food Poisoning Dead Zone

Author:Michael Pollan

“I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."”

Giving Said Marriage Storm Buried Shelter Burned Trails Corn Exhaustion Hail Hunted Crocodiles Burned Out Shelter From The Storm

Author:Bob Dylan

“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”

Success Opportunity Work Sleep Effort Hard Work Corn Poor Richard

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.”

Night Silence Saws Listening Bird Lonely Ears Woods Golden Autumn Solitary Locks Hollow Corn Shaking Tangled Misty Forlorn Fall Autumn

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.”

Fall Plenty Autumn Cheer Yellow Corn Horns Fall Autumn Nodding Wreaths Autumn Love

Book:The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

“Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.”

Fall Black Land Wind Autumn Flats Lap Corn Silk Spears Fall Season Falling Off Hangers October And Fall Autumn Wind Leaves In The Wind

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

Men World Want Children Made Two Dream Born Poor Sweet Daughter Raised Selling My Children Grandmother Grandchildren Defects My Grandmother Corn Countryside My Grandchildren Two Daughters

Author:Hugo Chavez

“When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.”

Littles Light Fall Water Born Tree Sweet Holy Spring Rain Clouds Shakes Melody Grain Harvest Breeze Corn April Springtime Puff Poppies Holy Water

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.”

Humility Ears Lowest Corn

Author:Christopher Augustine Reynolds

“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”

Mean God Literature Wine Ritual Throwing Destroying Corn Corny Altars Throwing Away

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”

Trying Fall Half Tree Wind Arguing Autumn Limbs Corn November Stalking Swirls Fall Season November Poems Whisk Autumn Wind Detaining

Author:Aldo Leopold

“The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.”

Men Hands Light Lying Born Tree Divine He Man Drug Essentials Garden Soil Rejoice Gardening Farming Corn Gardener Sprouts

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.”

Fields Sweet Lovers Spring Bird Green Rings Hey Corn You Like It Sweet Love Spring Time Lovers Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.”

Want Country Greater Golf Invention Sand Electric Senior Corn Golfers Snob Extremity Plasters Toothbrushes Surrey

Book:Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.”

Should Today Mines Tomorrow Aids Labour Collaboration Corn Profitable Ripe Team Collaboration

Author:David Hume

“Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.”

Knows Want Should Littles Today Pain Community Loses Kindness Security Mines Tomorrow Labor Treats Seasons Accounts Aids Mutual Volunteer Citizenship Harvest Corn Profitable Ripe Seasons Change

Author:David Hume

“Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.”

People Men World Self Results Moral Opinion Conformity Association Approval Corn Approval Of Others Self Approval

Book:The Portable Mark Twain

Source: The Portable Mark Twain

“The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years.”

Ifs Years Two Country Enough Government Three Next Fun Middle Produce Oil Three Years Senate Considering Eastern Corn Invasion Subsidies Ethanol

Author:Jay Leno

“Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.”

Farmers Agriculture Greedy Corn Crops

Author:Michael Pollan

“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”

Country Literature Born Vote Raises Hunting Patriot Hunts Corn Corny

Author:Lord Byron

“If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

Ifs Men Hard Success House Church Sells Woods Boards Chairs Broads Knives Organs Pigs Beaten Corn Crucible Mouse Traps

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.”

Sleep Sells Corn Diligence Poor Richard Spanish Proverb

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.”

Thinking Men Love Hard Happiness Grows Watches Praying Draws Breaths Corn Cheerfulness Spades

Author:John Ruskin

“Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.”

Writing Wells Done Courses Work Honest Honesty Fine Rewards Senses Being Honest Epic Corn Work Done Honest Work

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”

Ifs Men World Science Knowledge Rich Soil Weed Corn Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.”

Men Science Accounts Als Corn Fey

Book:The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer

Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer

“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”

Ifs Mean Fall Class Industry Encouragement Prosperity Productive Corn Accumulation If Then

Book:The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"”

Men Mind Mother Father Boys Gone Doors He Man Calling Summer Towns Kitchen Cows Hollow Corn July Mills Robins Jamie Hay Whistling

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“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

“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Joy Boys Tree Cry Wind Summer Blue Distance Heavy Wander Mourning Breeze Corn August Oaks Dove Wheat Vines Ecstatic Odor Melons Delirious Duos

Book:Boy Life on the Prairie

Source: Boy Life on the Prairie

“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.”

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