Famous Quotes & Sayings

That 38 acres of agricultural land will be gone forever. That's undebatable.

It is possible that the grove acreage (in Florida) could be down to about 548,000 acres at the end of 2009.

I watched it grow in the 1980s and 1990s, and 500 to 1,000 acres of water were being built every year.

Connie Stevens

I am fortunate enough to have two and a quarter acres and a great housekeeper and houseman. Also, my home is large.

History has shown that the Legislature has never done that. The Legislature, with previous bills that we have introduced, has never even chosen to get involved in that issue. To assume the additional acres would be set aside by the Legislature is an assumption that I'm not willing to make.

We may have our family feuds, but at least this is our 6.6 acres of God's green earth. Let us decide, not someone else.

It is a 200-acre-plus site, and the casino might be two to three acres of that.

It is a good business to be in. But it's not as profitable per acre as it was in 1980s and 1990s.

Land costs are getting high, but are still cheap compared to California, or even Sun Valley, where an acre of land can cost $1 million. But it's still pushing housing prices up.

Doc Severinsen

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

James Wade

We had a little bit of rain to come in. It helped for about two days. And now we're back to the way we were two days...you know, last week we were chasing fires, and all the fires been 100 acres plus. The same thing's happening now. It just takes a little spark, and the fire runs and it's hard to catch it.

One million dollars an acre is a great start for 2006. I am hopeful we are on our way to break the 2005 sales record and generate more millions for Arizona Public Education.

Reggie Brown

So many users were turned off by the price. When we returned with volume, we literally left acres of tomatoes in the field.

Frank Turner

Now try to separate that in your mind from a person who owns hundreds of acres of land, and is now extending a water main through that tract, and still hasn't really thought out exactly the project he's going to build. Why would the extension of that utility vest development rights at that time?

Eddie Albert

Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.

People with 20 acres of lava and sagebrush have been stuck.

James Graham

Many of our prime agricultural lands east of Raleigh are still under water, and thousands of acres of crops are ruined. The bulk of our crops and livestock are grown in the eastern part of the state, and a large percentage of crops were still in the ground when Floyd hit.

September 11, bad as it was, was confined to just sixteen acres in New York but the devastation here is right across the entire region.

She was living at the old house with the Guild family members (when the armed services held) maneuvers behind Rose Mont. They owned about 300-400 acres there. George Patton and Omar Bradley were there. George Patton asked her if she would do some laundry for him, and he didn't like something she did, and she just told him what she thought. She was a very strong willed person.

Thomas B. Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia

Alexandra Paul

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near Elizabeth. I just wish they had full slices of bread here so I could have a few tomato sandwiches and really enjoy the day.

When it comes to horses, we need lots of acres and not many horses, but with these acres it would seem to be too small for the task at hand.

We own just over seven acres of the upper bluff and will pursue the remaining four properties with all deliberate speed as money allows and as the owners are willing to sell.

While plantation forests are an extremely valuable resource and will undoubtedly supply an increasing portion of wood and fiber needs in the future, they should not be considered a substitute for the region's dwindling natural forests. During the past five years, the region lost more than 14.8 million acres of natural forests.

With a 20-pound (per acre) seeding rate, that's around $60 an acre for the technology for the life of the stand.

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.

Taking 10,000 acres off the tax rolls is a concern for the county.

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.

Jared Diamond

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

Jon Kyl

Forest Service resources need to be concentrated on the most critical acres and communities at risk across the regions.

Dick Smith

For every acre out there, there's someone that cares about it.

I'm expecting a decline in acres of rice statewide. It's a question of how much.