Crops Quotes

245 quotes by 203 authors

Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,… — Hilary McKay
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. — Gail Carson Levine
A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. — Teresa Medeiros
a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a… — Lisa See
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your… — George R. R. Martin
I am looking at you and you are looking at me. This is very good. I am looking and I am liking. You are looking… — Louise Rennison
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops — George Eliot
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit… — Mark Twain
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get… — Anthony de Mello
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant… — Antoine Predock
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. — Elon Musk
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for… — Wendell Berry
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn… — Bill Gates
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. — Bill Gates
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some… — Alice Morse Earle
Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far… — Tristram Stuart
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. — Michael Specter
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years.… — Noam Chomsky

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