If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of…

“I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we…

— Tom Carter

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken…

— Mark Twain

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

— Tanya Tucker

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

— Jesse Plemons

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

— Charles Evers

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into…

— Franz Grillparzer

Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass…

— Winkie Pratney

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

— Delta Burke

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length…

— Will Cuppy

About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail…

— Rick Carlisle

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of…

— Thom Hartmann

It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort…

— William Petty

“I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.”

— Jonathan Lethem