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)

    If you can look into the seeds of time,
    And say which grain will grow and which will not,
    Speak then to me.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)