Country Barn Sayings

#1. Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

Walt Whitman

#2. If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

Harry Browne

#3. The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.

Edward Hoagland

#4. Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi.

Antonio Cassano

#5. Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

John Templeton

#6. Farm country
you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm
cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

Sam Shepard

#7. Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Lenore Kandel

#8. I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.

Jim Butcher

#9. The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

Pauly Shore

#10. I don't eat red meat.

Waka Flocka Flame

#11. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Bob Feller

#12. Livia squeezed his hand. I'm not letting you go.

Debra Anastasia

#13. Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."
from "A Day in the Country

Anton Chekhov

#14. Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Graydon Carter

#16. By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

Albert Camus

#17. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Woody Guthrie