Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas McDonald

I killed my first mule at 10. Plowed him to death. The sad part is, after the mule died, I had an acre and a half to do, and I had to pull the plow my own self.

Larry Lewis

The high years for Utah County were back in 2001, when there was 56,000 acres of grasshoppers and in 2004 when there was 124,000 acres of crickets.

William Taylor

It's pretty obvious this property is suitable for use greater than 20,000 square feet and one acre because that's what it's been since 1963.

Jared Diamond

Domesticated plants and animals yield far more calories per acre than do wild habitats, in which most species are inedible to humans.

Steve Morris

It's certainly a record price for a piece of property that represents $1 million an acre and is not currently zoned for the uses proposed. It's a stellar location. This could be an exciting project.

Lori Frantz

They were more worried about how many houses they can get on an acre than the people who live here.

Steve Mahoney

It's ideal for someone who wants to plant trees for a wind break or to create some wildlife habitat. If you have an acre of land, you can plant up to 1,000 trees, depending on spacing.

J. Taylor

The in-town projects are opening up the centers of our communities to accommodate some of the growth that is coming, ... We've got 18,000 new people moving here a year. If everyone is going to build on acre lots, we are in trouble.

Mark Beam

A big 500 acre field of grass. This is where birds will come in and stage a lot of times before they actually go out and feed. But a lot of times they go out and feed on this grass itself. So there is a lot of traffic in here and I am real optimistic we are going to get a lot of birds in here.

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Kenneth Grahame

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

Kenneth Grahame

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

James Elliott

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

J. M. Roberts

He's a likeable guy. I never had a problem with him until this happened. But about a year go, he got these animals and they were crapping all over my driveway and my yard and we were tracking it in the house. I asked him to please keep them on his land, but they kept coming over.

E. Hicks

I think it's a very emotional issue because animals can't speak for themselves. These are people who care about animals and think they are doing the right thing.

Brian Iannessa

He was just seeing animals out there not getting care because pet owners had to make their decisions with their pocketbooks and not their hearts.

Kerry Manion

In my opinion, he's a predator -- that he's collecting these animals. He knows that there's a violation of his sentencing agreement.

Willie Smith

I noticed it's a family atmosphere. The kids get excited about seeing the animals. It's a good event.

Kathryn Harrison

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

Martha Beck

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

Carlos Camargo

If you have to cut calories why not start with sugar water?

Melissa Schrader

The calories should come from a variety of different food groups, not just one or two groups.

Dean Ornish

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

Joel Fuhrman

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Thomas Wadden

There's nothing worse than to be watching your calories and exercising, but the scale just doesn't budge, ... You just feel like, 'My efforts are for naught.' That's when people tend to give up.

Ruth Frechman

New mothers are extraordinarily busy, but that doesn't necessarily translate into calories burned. And even if you're breast-feeding, you only need about 200 more calories per day than you required during pregnancy.

Stuart Rasch

Four hundred calories at a time every four hours has been very difficult to do at work.

Joel Fuhrman

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think we're far away from each other.

Cyndy Kenyon

I think we kind of need to regroup and get back to how we know how to play. Because as far as talent and as far as who's the better team, we're better than they are this year, and so the reason that we're losing games is our own fault.

Chris Palacios

I think we're set up well for (today) as far as the relay goes.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Charles Miller

It was wild . . . at least wild for us,

Paul Frost

This is pretty wild now. We're getting behind.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.