The Quaker Oats Company

Famous quotes containing the words quaker, oats and/or company:

“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)