Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

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.

Gary Myers

There are very few parcels with an acre or above, ... If you needed five to 10 acres, it would be very scarce.

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.

Eartha Kitt

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

LaTanya Richardson

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

When we received it, it was just an old farmhouse and 560 acres of land. It's grown quite a bit.

Alfred Rosenberg

And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again...

Terence McKenna

I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.

We'd like to preserve about 1,000 acres a year. We hope to be at 9,500 next year (since the program started in 1990) and our goal is to reach 10,000 acres by 2007.

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.

Joel Salatin

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

Delta Burke

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

When the depression hit, he bought land for 50 cents an acre and cows for $1 each from his neighbors who couldn't make it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Both performed well, in terms of angler trips per acre and angler trips per trout.

We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.

Donald Bren

When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.