Farmers Grain Elevator

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

“I find ... virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“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)