“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral. — Curt Siodmak Copy Share Image
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced… — Graham Stuart Thomas Copy Share Image
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
