Farmers Grain Elevator

Famous quotes containing the words farmers, grain and/or elevator:

    “Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with heart’s
    blood
    Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
    themselves
    Arisen at sunrise”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)