It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The government of Qatar, as I mentioned, has proposed to come and lease Kenya's Tana River delta in order to farm there.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
