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)

“For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)