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.

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Aristophanes

A truce to idle phrases!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Steve Sampson

Let's put it this way France '98 was half a decade ago - it's ancient history as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on.

Niccolo Machiavelli

May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time

Richard Preston

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Doug Heiken

Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work implementing the Forest Plan, so at least minimal protections are in place for ancient forests, salmon, wildlife and clean drinking water.

Lyndon Johnson

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Thomas Day

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

John Ortberg

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.