Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eartha Kitt

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

Zac Goldsmith

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

Ted Stevens

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

We could eventually lose so many acres that the U.S. could lose markets and its standing as a reliable supplier.

We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.

Ben Johnson

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

We've lost numerous other structures, five vehicles and tens of thousands of acres of land.

We're talking about 1,100 deer in 90,000 acres of land. We just don't think the overpopulation problem is so severe that it requires this response.

Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

We have almost 80 acres on the south side, to park aircraft on, and during the season it's packed full, ... They may be sitting there 20, 30 or 40 minutes waiting to be released by the central tower.

I would love to have an animal sanctuary in Franklin County. We're looking for someone who could donate the land. Five or 10 acres would be enough.

Mesa has got a whole lot more custom homes than Tempe or Chandler, all those orange-grove homes. There are tons of acre and acre-and-a-half home sites that are reasonably priced.

John Lasseter

Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.

Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

I'm happy Boca High is getting some needed things, but I don't think it will help in the long run. Boca High has 30 acres of land, which is the smallest site in the county for a comprehensive high school.

We have an indoor covered arena, an outdoor arena, 200 acres of trails and 90 acres of lush pasture. We're open to the public for boarding, (horse) training and teaching people how to ride. We can stable 20 horses." ()

We are hoping that the county will use the 16.3 acres as an elementary school site.

We estimate it will take 150,000 to 200,000 acres to meet the offset.

Ann Moore

We'll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market.

Two years ago, ... intense fires burned 739,597 acres in these national forests, destroying 3,631 homes and killing 24 people. Fuel loads may be worse this year because of grasses that have grown as a result of last winter's rains.

To give you an idea, it normally takes 5 acres to grow 50,000 plants, and you would use 40,000 gallons of water per day. We use 1,500 gallons per day.

We?re lucky that the York Water District leases us about 6.5 acres of land up there. That?s how we were able to grow and expand, and they have recently added another seven acres to our 50-year lease with them ... We are hoping to build a small education center so that we can be more of a public facility.

Plymouth has 62,000 acres of land, of which 26,000 acres are tax exempt. Creating a more diverse tax base really was a factor in this decision.

Donald Bren

My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands.

One thing that has changed is the price of land. You try to go out and buy some farmland, and no one's wanting to sell the little tracts of 80 or 100 acres that people have always wanted.

Mike Lewis

On Sept. 8, I opened the gates and drained it for 45 days. We got it down to three acres of surface water.

John Oates

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

If it was a five-acre parcel, I think I would be very hesitant to try to build mid-range housing product in that location, but the fact that it's 50 acres means you can really create an environment that changes the character of the entire area. I think that's really the key to making this successful, because otherwise you're in kind of a sea of lower-income rental housing.

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

Going from an agricultural zoning of a minimum 10 acres to one acre lots is a huge change. It's more in the best interest of the developer; it's not in the best interest of the community.

It all starts with the price of the land. Show me another market that is selling land for $700,000 an acre that's not looking at the ocean. We don't have enough, and it's priced too high.

It can range from a few cents per acre up to $5.60 per acre of land that has these conservation practices on it.