Crops Quotes
245 quotes by 209 authors
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
— Kenny Smith
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
— Alexander Pope
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Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source…
— James Salter
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The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually…
— Joshua Reynolds
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In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged…
— John Pugsley
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
— Wendell Berry
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
— Ernest Poole
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The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the…
— Meridel Le Sueur
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise…
— Ike Skelton
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The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is…
— G. Edward Griffin
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To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
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I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system…
— Vandana Shiva
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Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a…
— Elaine de Kooning
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I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less…
— Ramon Novarro
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Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of…
— Norman Pirie
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There's a new Facebook app that will post a final status update for you after you die. That's ridiculous. I don't need someone to change…
— Jimmy Fallon
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He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
— François Lelord
Who Wrote These Crops Quotes
209 authors contributed a total of 245 Crops Quotes, led by these top contributors: