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.

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?

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.

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.

John Garrott

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.

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.

Dave Alberswerth

If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Pat Morris

Like all the things he's gone through in the last two years, he'll take it in stride. If it doesn't happen then you haven't built yourself up too much to be let down.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Raymond Seed

Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

George Parnham

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Julie Christie

One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

Joseph Zwilling

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Natasha Trethewey

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Wilbur Smith

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

Bible Bible

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Mark Ritchie

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

George Grace

One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Tony Smith

Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Steve Black

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Greg Davis

Let's open up with a 15 zap read.

John Lewis Gaddis

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Jimmy Carter

free, honest, open and without any violence of any kind.

Kerry Tharp

From our standpoint, the process is still very much open and active.

Kevin Bishop

We need to open it for more exploration. We need to become more independent.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Eric Draper

We should let the ranch be economically sustainable but also ecologically sustainable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.