If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special. — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. — William Petty Copy Share Image
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.' — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa...… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds,… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
