Top 36 Bushel Quotes
#1. A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains
Hobart Brown
#2. Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
George Herbert
#3. I was gazing at that full bushel of apples when she made her stunning, preposterous announcement, that I have possibly never recovered from. 'Jim it's over, and the kids and I have decided you should go.
Gabrielle Hamilton
#4. In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan
#5. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
George Herbert
#6. Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.
Charles McCarry
#7. But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#8. It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
Helen Rowland
#9. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb
Nana Awere Damoah
#10. We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Dean Stanley
#11. By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle
Michael Pollan
#12. And now, she was walking down the hall with her books clutched to her chest, looking down at the floor while guys called, Don't hide that light under a bushel!
E. Lockhart
#13. I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
Ray Bradbury
#14. Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)
Michael Pollan
#15. I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? - that the entire song was about him?
Jennifer Paynter
#16. Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Orison Swett Marden
#18. Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
Lynn Austin
#19. I love you to the moon and back." Gracie grinned. "Well, I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck,
Carolyn Brown
#20. People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit! I've never bought that. In my business, the only thing you've really got is your talent; it's the only thing you have to sell.
Johnny Carson
#21. What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
David F. Houston
#22. All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
W.C. Fields
#23. A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
Isaac Newton
#25. I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.
James Jeffrey Roche
#26. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
Robin Hobb
#27. Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
Robert Herrick
#28. I often found myself curled up at midday on a hard wooden bench, snoring lightly, drooling on the back of my hand, trying to sleep off my exuberance - and then waking to a headache and a bushel of horrible paragraphs. Admittedly,
Michael Paterniti
#29. All of my babies know that I preach all day ... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
Betty Wright
#30. If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
J.G. Holland
#32. It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.
Moby
#33. I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.
S.J Perelman
#34. The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexual misadventure; they hadn't even bothered to use the word "alleged.
John Sandford
#35. A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.
John Robert Seeley
#36. The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.
Brigham Young
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