Planters Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
— Stephen Ambrose
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to…
— John Woolman
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew…
— Andrew Jackson
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In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants…
— Jack Weatherford
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Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they…
— Eric Thomas
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The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty…
— Simon Newcomb
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The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
— Dan Kimball
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Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
— Andy Stanley
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
— Margaret Mitchell
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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,…
— Tom Wolfe
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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
— Michael Pollan
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I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to…
— Jorge Amado
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work…
— Nikola Tesla
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Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed…
— Ken Kesey
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If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
— Charles E. Merrill
Who Wrote These Planters Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Planters Quotes as follows: