Crops Quotes
245 quotes by 210 authors
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Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is…
— Rajneesh
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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed…
— Richard Adams
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Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show,…
— Lucas Malet
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There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would…
— Ruth Bancroft Law
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent…
— Alan D. Eames
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant…
— Plato
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What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to…
— Zhang Sanfeng
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If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts —…
— Lierre Keith
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That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop,…
— Paul Muldoon
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Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco]…
— Noam Chomsky
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One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown…
— Noam Chomsky
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For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and…
— David Bellamy
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There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there…
— Roald Dahl
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Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing…
— Mark Udall
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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages…
— Henry Ford
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The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But…
— Dorothy Day
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our…
— Wes Jackson
Who Wrote These Crops Quotes
210 authors contributed a total of 245 Crops Quotes, led by these top contributors: