Quotes by Oats Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. Alexander Pope oats agriculture hands 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? Anne Bosworth Greene oats apples winter 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. Bill Bryson oats potatoes wheat The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. Bill Bryson oats corn nine The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Charles Dudley Warner oats dirt passion 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. Daniel Levitin oats corn earth Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff. Diana Gabaldon oats land usual In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. Edith Wharton crops oats rotation Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up. George Carlin oats fats chocolate The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. Henry James Byron oats age time If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops. Hildegard of Bingen oats hops beer Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. James Russell Lowell oats spurs blood Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. Horace oats ashamed Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. John Kenneth Galbraith oats horse sides If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). John Kenneth Galbraith oats sparrows horse So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it. Laini Taylor oats stupid mean Who the heck is Don Quick-oats? Libba Bray oats The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road. Mark Helprin oats horse tree Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. Plautus oats spring men Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. Richard Le Gallienne oats life-is art 12»