Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Alexander Hamilton

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

Vandana Shiva

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

David F. Houston

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Alexander Pope

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Dan Glickman

One of the trends we’re seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it’s grown and what’s in it,

Debbie Stabenow

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Alice Waters

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Allan Savory

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying

Bill Cosby

And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

Alexander the Great

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

Orson Scott Card

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Alexander Pope

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Colin Powell

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

Andy Warhol

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

Aeschylus

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Bob Dylan

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.