Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

Herbert Hoover

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

Christine Lagarde

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

Jim Costa

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Jerry Weller

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Jerry Moran

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Jim Hightower

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

John Salazar

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

Michael Pollan

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

Skeet Ulrich

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Max Baucus

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

Norman Borlaug

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Norman Borlaug

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Michael Shanks

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Joseph Joubert

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Larry Holmes

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

Friedrich List

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

James Cook

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

John Arbuthnot

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Michael McCaul

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Ralph Merkle

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

Jacques Diouf

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

Quintilian

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Prince Philip

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Mao Zedong

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

Mao Zedong

The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

Edward Taylor

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

John Entwistle

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

James Madison

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.