Seed Corn Sayings

#1. Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

Raymond C. Hoiles

#2. Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

James Cook

#3. Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

Michael Pollan

#5. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He

Barbara Delinsky

#6. And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

John Dryden

#7. I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

Scott McClellan

#8. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

#9. Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Carl Sagan

#10. All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

Daniel J. Mitchell

#11. I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

Erykah Badu

#12. You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Ken Kesey

#13. Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

Peter Gzowski

#14. Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

Mitt Romney

#15. If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

Robert Grosseteste

#16. Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

PJ Harvey

#17. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

Joy Harjo

#18. Closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#20. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

Raph Koster

#21. Is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?

Carl Sagan

#22. Write everyday, read everyday. Dance as if no one's watching, write as if no one's reading!

Toby Whithouse