Quotes About Barns

#1. I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

Larry The Cable Guy

#2. You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.

Katie Price

#3. A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Jon Katz

#4. Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

Ovid

#5. Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Wolcott Gibbs

#6. Waves of despair rolled over him. He hadn't expected any of this: not the caved-in barns or crumbling fences, not the rotting wheat in the unplowed fields. It was as if the life had been punched right out of this place.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#7. It will not always be summer; build barns.

Hesiod

#8. This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs.

Lydia Netzer

#9. Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Jean Froissart

#11. The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there's always the farm and the cows ...

Rawi Hage

#12. He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat
one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred dollar that were usually worn by people who spend more time in Land Rovers than barns.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

Pope Gregory I

#14. The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.

Jamie Wyeth

#15. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Donald Hall

#16. I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

Kellan Lutz

#17. Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

Paul Di Filippo

#18. To go with, not against the elements, an inexhaustible vitality summoned back each day to do the same tasks, to feed the animals, clean out barns and pens, keep that complex world alive.

May Sarton

#19. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything

Boris Pasternak

#20. 26"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Phil Robertson

#21. Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Anthony Lewis

#22. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Shane Claiborne

#23. I definitely straddled the line and hung out with high-school dirtbags. I'd tell my parents I was spending the night at my friend's but actually go to Philly and see a show at Starlight Ballroom. I would drink and do all that stuff, but I didn't set any barns on fire.

Daughn Gibson

#24. I pause in garages, sheds and roofless barns touching things, identifying objects once secretly coveted.

Tom Gillaspy

#25. ...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.

Edith Summers Kelley

#26. Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. That is the way Connecticut goes, in a series of Marcelle waves; and Lock Willow Farm is just on the crest of one wave. The barns used to be across the road where they obstructed the view, but a kind flash of lightning came from heaven and burnt them down.

Jean Webster

#28. Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, ... with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

Ben Jonson

#29. Before them an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a farm-yard.

Jane Austen

#30. Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Leonard Cohen

#31. I'll pour gasoline on everything Dad built and we can just leave the Barns behind.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#33. It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

Adrian Rogers

#34. When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#35. You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

Sylvia Plath

#36. The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

Coventry Patmore

#37. I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

Dolly Parton

#38. I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

Tod Machover

#39. You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

Dana Carvey

#40. I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Victoria Wood

#41. That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

Emmy Rossum

#42. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#43. Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#44. There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#45. Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Don DeLillo

#46. Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#47. I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door

Alan Brazil

#48. You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#49. How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#50. No one is born a Communist ... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

Nikita Khrushchev

#51. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#52. There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

Suzanne Falter-Barns