Best Corn Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The good thing about rural Georgia is that you can always make some change working with your hands. So I started pulling corn and pickin' peas and butterbeans. Seriously, that was my job. I used to wake up at six in the morning and get to pullin' before school. That's hard work.”

“There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.”

“Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.”

“The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.”

“I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.”

“If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.”

“The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.”

“Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.”

“The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.”

“I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.”

“With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.”

“I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.”

“I was fired from my first job in New York. I was just out of school, doing the Welsh play, 'The Corn Is Green,' at Equity Library Theater. I was studying with Uta Hagen, and I was really working well, but they got nervous. They wanted results right away. We had a run-through, and I wasn't there yet, so they fired me.”

“My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.”

“I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.”

“Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.”

“I definitely recommend keeping frozen corn dogs in your freezer.”

“'Seanan McGuire' is my real name; if I'm being silly and third-person about it, she's a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on vacation in the real world, where she studies diseases, cuddles reptiles, watches lots of horror movies, and goes to as many corn fields as possible.”

“The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.”

“Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.”

“Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.”

“If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.”

“In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.”

“When the dollar goes down relative to other currencies, the price of wheat, corn, rice and oil all go up in dollar terms.”

“I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.”

“I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to get diversity across there. Geographical diversity is important. Industry diversity is important: you can't have all corn growers... Not only that, you've got gender diversity, you've got racial diversity.”

“The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.”

“Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies focus on financing the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock.”

“I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.”

“We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'”

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

“I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.”

“Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.”

“When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.”

“In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.”

“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.”

“We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.”

“I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.”

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”