Quotes by Corn A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully. Meriwether Lewis corn medicine children American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent. Michael Pollan soybeans corn vegetables All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how. Michael Specter crops corn mankind Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Michael Pollan greedy agriculture corn So that's us: processed corn, walking. Michael Pollan corn walking If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible. Michel de Montaigne sullen corn toes Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn. Mitt Romney research-and-development corn creativity I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes. Nelly sucker corn toes For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. Neil Gaiman library corn littles I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color. Nick Offerman corn consistency color We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. Orville Redenbacher corn feeding made In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. Orville Redenbacher corny corn The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle. Orville Redenbacher corn bigs firsts A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. Oscar Wilde corn toes people In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars. Paul Gigot corn mixing dollars Never thrust your sickle into another's corn. Publilius Syrus thrust corn American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. R. James Woolsey, Jr. corn war commitment We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! Ralph Waldo Emerson peppers corn expression I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Ralph Waldo Emerson corn love children Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. Ralph Waldo Emerson corn money war «123456»
