Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in… — Rachel Notley Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly,… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to… — Jan Cameron Copy Share Image
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack,… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or… — Nunnally Johnson Copy Share Image
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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