Crops Quotes

Quotations list about crops, agriculture and agriculturist citing Ovid, American Indian Proverbs and Fred A. Allen

  • Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

    — Ovid
    19
  • One rain does not make a crop.

    — American Indian Proverbs
    9
  • Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats;

    then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

    — Fred A. Allen
    4
  • 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 crop without cultivation.

    — Plato
    4
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  • One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

    — Emiliano Zapata
    2
  • Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

    — Michael Pollan
    2
  • Private victories precede public victories.

    You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

    — Stephen Covey
    1
  • Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

    — Ovid
    1
  • My time has been passed viciously and agreeably;

    at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

    — Lord Byron
    0
  • The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

    — R. Pocock
    0
  • When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

    — E. G. Stakman
    0
  • Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

    — Andrea Dworkin
    0
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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 fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

    — Sir Joshua Reynolds
    0
  • The adoption process [in 1960s Britain was] an industrious, utilitarian solution: the government, the farmer; the adopting parents, the consumer; the mother, the Earth; and the child, the crop.

    — Lemn Sissay
    0
  • Sexy in India is not considered positive.

    But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

    — Aishwarya Rai
    0
  • When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

    — Doug Coupland
    0
  • I think the inflation prospects for the U.

    S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

    — Arthur Laffer
    0
  • It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon;

    which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

    — Franklin P. Jones
    0
  • If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

    — Tom Barrett
    0
  • Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

    — Ansel Adams
    0
  • The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth.

    And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

    — Jim Bunning
    0
  • By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

    — Richard Lugar
    0
  • Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop.

    They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

    — Richard Hell
    0
  • To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

    — Henry Cantwell Wallace
    0
  • It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

    — Barry Mann
    0
  • I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

    — Graeme Murphy
    0
  • There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

    — Peter Garrett
    0
  • 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, as it were.

    — Paul Muldoon
    0
  • There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

    — Charles E. Wilson
    0
  • The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

    — Jeremy Rifkin
    0
  • Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

    — David F. Houston
    0
  • Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

    — Gilbert White
    0
  • We are all share-croppers working for a roof, food and our share of the material-goods crop.

    — Bryant H. McGill
    0
  • Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

    — Bill Gates
    0
  • It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

    — Lawrence Hargrave
    0
  • Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

    — Ken Auletta
    0

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