Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Jon Kyl

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

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

David Williams

Eight hundred acres is my office. I feel much more fortunate that I have a job that lets me do that. It makes me appreciate that I have an opportunity to work in this environment.

The biggest thing for me is preserving the habitat. An estimated 2,500 acres a day (nationwide) is lost to malls and subdivision. We are trying to preserve some place for the wild animals to call home.

Carroll Shelby

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

It took out a good 8 acres of trees.

Shane Smith

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

We're talking about a smaller city, but a safer and hopefully more sustainable one, ... The alternative is to continue as we are, losing 60 acres (of wetlands) a day. By 2090, New Orleans would be exposed to the open sea, with no protection at all.

Bill Gross

We've been completing about 300 to 400 acres a day, which is actually a lot.

We've owned a lot of land down there for many years. We had 12,000 acres. Now, we're adding 6,000 acres together.

When you get more acres in a day, it's a bad day when you're harvesting, ... You want to be dumping as much as you can.

There are 45 parks in Wyandotte County, ranging from 1,500 acres to the tiny St. John's Park on Third Street and Armstrong.

The other good thing about this is that (the project) is not on that 5- or 10-acre spacing like the Jonah Field ... We're talking 160 or 320 acres spacing, which is a lot more spread out.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

We asked these questions: What does 'obtain' mean? Are they trying to buy it or exercise the power of eminent domain? They didn't tell us whatever they were trying to do. What is the time limit? I wanted to know if they're taking 22.8 acres, which acres ? in the front, back, middle?

We have about two million acres here that are potential agriculture and they're going out of business. This is gonna revive those.

Our agency is the largest agriculture water retailer in San Diego County. We have about 23,000 or 24,000 acres of agricultural land, so while we have enough storage to serve our domestic customers for 10 days, we don't have enough storage to accommodate our agricultural customers during the shutdown.

Originally, we had about 275 acres in this farm. The state took 13 acres of the land to build the highway. We didn't like it to begin with.

The ones who are in favor of the nomination live near the 50 acres of forest we want to preserve. The majority of people who are opposed to it say they think this type of mid-rise condos is out of keeping with the rest of the development in the area.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

Larry Klayman

The state overreached. They wanted the other 5.7 acres and they coerced my client, Mr. Hering, into selling it to them by saying that he wasn't going to get a right-of-way to get to those acres.

Back in the 1960s, one of the members bought some land there and wanted to sell 10 acres to the club for a clubhouse and shelter, and so it came about.

They told us they had parking issues and we said we had 5.5 acres they were welcome to use to solve their problem. We were more than happy to help out the fair.

John Grant

The University is very concerned about the possibility of fire on our campus. We have hundreds of acres of land that are extremely dry due to the recent drought. Even areas that are usually somewhat wet (like Groundhog Park) are in a very dry and fire prone condition right now.

There weren't a whole lot of folks who wanted it. Now it's our opportunity to add 3 acres to the park.