Top Oats Quotes Collection

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Image of Shannon Fife
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.
- Shannon Fife
Collection: Oats
Image of Bill Bryson
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
- Bill Bryson
Collection: Oats
Image of Daniel Levitin
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
- Daniel Levitin
Collection: Oats
Image of Edith Wharton
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
- Edith Wharton
Collection: Oats
Image of Alexander Pope
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Oats
Image of Horace
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
- Horace
Collection: Oats
Image of Libba Bray
Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?
- Libba Bray
Collection: Oats
Image of George Carlin
Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.
- George Carlin
Collection: Oats
Image of Bill Bryson
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
- Bill Bryson
Collection: Oats
Image of Sholom Aleichem
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.
- Sholom Aleichem
Collection: Oats
Image of Diana Gabaldon
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.
- Diana Gabaldon
Collection: Oats
Image of James Russell Lowell
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Oats
Image of Steve Martin
She was feeling her bohemian oats.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Oats