Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Brian McCabe

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.

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.

Mark Winkleman

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.

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?

Thomas B. Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia

Robert Anderson

I did make a comment that I didn't think more than 20 (residential units) per acre was appropriate for that site. At the same time, I'm only one board member.

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.

Rick Forney

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.

Joe Cheshire

Now, whether there are other issues as to it relates to issues like drinking and partying and those things, I've got no clue. But if it relates to sexual assault, they can search 'til the cows come home.

Elbert Hubbard

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Cilla Black

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

Alan Watts

Cows scream louder than carrots.

James E. Faust

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

Diana Vreeland

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

Rig Veda

The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by undoing .. one who generates fire between two rocks, victor in battles, he, O people, is Indra.

Bill Fulkerson

It is a better lifestyle for the cows and the farmers.

Mel Gussow

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.

Bret Bielema

Now, we're getting into the meat and potatoes about spring ball.

Martin Lawrence

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Martin Lawrence

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

Abigail Adams

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Bryce Courtenay

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Bill Bailey

I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.

Bob Odenkirk

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

Earl Campbell

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Stuart Gauthier

One tree can make 300 pounds of fruit.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Eric Shanteau

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.