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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

Bill Self

There's not many things less important than the score at halftime.

Bill Crawford

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

C. S. Lewis

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Cecelia Ahern

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Carrie Underwood

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

Bette Davis

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Anton Corbijn

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.