Farmers Grain Elevator

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

“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)

“He never doubts his genius; it is only he and his God in all the world. He uses language sometimes as greatly as Shakespeare; and though there is not much straight grain in him, there is plenty of tough, crooked timber.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The indifferent clerk he knowing what was going to happen
The lobby zombies they knowing what
The whistling elevator man he knowing
The winking bellboy knowing
Everybody knowing! I’d be almost inclined not to do anything!”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)