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.

Plato

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Katharine Hepburn

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Josh Billings

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Robert Green Ingersoll

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

Rick Riordan

We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

Annie Dillard

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Janis Ian

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Guy Finley

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Mark Twain

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Sean Connery

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Peter Dinklage

Call me Elf......one more time!

Sete Gibernau

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.