Top 100 Quotes About Hay
#1. Twoleg den with cows and a dark, hay-scented barn where she and
Erin Hunter
#2. My outlook has changed, Antonia. Last year this time, I'd bemoaned the ruined hay." He shrugged. "Now I know what real loss is. So I'm seeing things differently.
Debra Holland
#3. When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
John Taliaferro
#4. Unlike the summer sun,
my life has started to fade
Forsaken by the memories of thee,
which once shone like the jade.
My eyes elude the moist fear,
and are now as dry as hay
Melancholy cries are all I hear,
'Will you be there?' I daresay!
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
#5. The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resist it. - John Hay
Anonymous
#6. Gril: Hay ... If there's a will, there's a way.
Boy: True!
Katahimikan ...
Boy: Kaso ngayon minsan distorted na e. There's the way, where's the will?
Girl: Ooh Solid! Rak en Rol!
Manix Abrera
#7. Man to woman; man to man in letter words will stand
the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay
made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time.
Richard Mc Sweeney
#8. There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought.
(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)
Edmund Spenser
#9. A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April.
Alice Hoffman
#10. A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.
Garrison Keillor
#11. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
#12. Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away.
Theodore Dreiser
#13. It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.
Kristin Cashore
#14. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes
James Hogg
#15. Deep inside her heart, I was feeling my home like a hay made nest.
M.F. Moonzajer
#16. No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.
Thomas S. Monson
#17. Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#18. But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the airs smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping?
Herman Melville
#19. There are so many people who've come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.
Ada Limon
#20. I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.
John Updike
#21. In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.
Seamus Heaney
#22. I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
Kool Keith
#23. To say I have frizzy hair is an understatement. It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay.
Kathryn Stockett
#24. A.J. nodded, covering her smile with a hand as Devlin emerged with his hair messed up and hay hanging off his sweater. He looked like he'd been through a war.
"You okay there, champ?" Chester asked. "Those there grain bags can be tough when they come atcha in a pack like that.
J.R. Ward
#25. Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. 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
#28. Hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
Jeff Kinney
#29. You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. Henry
#30. Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is "gold, silver, precious stones." But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be "wood, hay, and stubble" and will be burned.
Billy Graham
#31. Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#32. But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?
Anne Bosworth Greene
#33. Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged
John Taliaferro
#34. When will I have sufficient leisure/wealth to sit on hay-bale watching moon rise, while in luxurious mansion family sleeps? At that time, will have chance to reflect deeply on meaning of life etc., etc. Have a feeling and have always had a feeling that this and other good things will happen for us!
Anonymous
#36. There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#37. Why did you buy them? Stop buyin my shit Austin! First the hay, now my horses. Why?
Kindle Alexander
#39. Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.
Erin Bow
#40. In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
George Herbert
#41. Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
Johannes Trithemius
#42. I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#43. after reading an article about Ulbrickson's nutritional regimen, and contemplating his boys' success, a horse trainer named Tom Smith would go in search of hay with a high calcium content for a racehorse named Seabiscuit.
Daniel James Brown
#44. Put this on your list of things to know: the combination of tinsel, baby angel wings, and manger hay burns like weed at a Miley Cyrus concert.
Stephanie Perkins
#46. But she's the kind that won't be downed easily. She'll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all night, and drive the hay wagon for a cross man next morning.
Willa Cather
#47. I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#48. I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
Robert Redford
#49. The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.
John Taliaferro
#50. The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.
Benjamin Franklin
#51. I didn't fall off the hay truck yesterday, buddy. I want you to go down there and try to boink some sense into her.
Molly Burkhart
#52. We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
Don Meyer
#53. Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
Lee Westwood
#54. For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
William Banting
#55. After a good roll in the hay, when he's all peaceful and serene and he hasn't a worry or a care in the world, and the euphoric calm of release is drifting through his cerebrum, that's when you broadside him with the cold cruel fact that his life as he knows it is over!
Benjamin R. Smith
#56. I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
Lincoln Davis
#57. How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
Kristin Cashore
#58. I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.
Dandi Daley Mackall
#59. The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry
Leo Tolstoy
#60. Other than an apparant Underworld gate, I had no idea what was in Kansas. Hay bales? Dorothy?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#61. Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.
Timothy Findley
#62. Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.
Jeffrey Jones
#63. The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
Amy Grant
#64. For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!
Agatha Christie
#65. Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.
Lemony Snicket
#66. Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence, ...
Andrew Tobias
#67. 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
#68. Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
Aldo Leopold
#70. Gathering the golden harvest through long summer days leaves a lasting sweetness to ripen in a man's soul. The smell of newly carted hay can be a lasting memory even in strange cities.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#71. One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest
John Steinbeck
#72. A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.
Walt Whitman
#73. He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY.
THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE
Nicanor Parra
#74. John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
John Taliaferro
#75. Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay.
Nicholas Breton
#76. Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]
Ernesto Che Guevara
#77. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.
Grant Wood
#78. Sarno contended that emotions such as guilt, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem caused the brain to manufacture such physical symptoms as migraine headaches, muscle pain, repetitive strain injuries, even hay fever.
Nikki Winston
#79. My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Christopher Marlowe
#80. 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
#81. Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Gautama Buddha
#83. He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]
Horace
#84. Moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
John Taliaferro
#86. Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
Will Cuppy
#88. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#89. The heart's actions
are neither the sentence nor its reprieve.
Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite.
One bird singing back to another because it can't not.
Jane Hirshfield
#90. I don't cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can't stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I'd ever thought or felt or been.
Judith Tarr
#91. Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave
Michael Lee West
#92. In the morning, in the morning,
In the happy field of hay,
Oh they looked at one another
By the light of day.
In the blue and silver morning
On the haycock as they lay,
Oh they looked at one another
And they looked away.
A.E. Housman
#93. The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.
Laura Wiess
#95. My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
Fred Funk
#96. The thicker the hay; the easier mowed.
Alaric I
#97. The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
Annie Dillard
#98. A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
Mae West
#99. If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?
Jon Stewart
#100. Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up.
Jane Smiley
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