Crops Quotes - Page 13

• Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

  Joseph Rago

  Pests, Genetically Modified Food, Drought

  "Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.

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• Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

  John the Apostle

  Healing, Angel, Water Of Life

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• 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 and you are thinking, 'I hope she doesn't hit me with her crop.' But that is because I am me and you are you.

  Louise Rennison

  Thinking, Like You, Very Good

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• 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 children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Children, Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.896, Bantam

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• 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

  Lonely, School, Teeth

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• 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, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.

  Hilary McKay

  Giving Up, Real, Believe

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• Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Luck, Nine, Chance

  "Equal Rites". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Garden, Agriculture, Goal

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Essence, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Years, Trying

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• I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Hero, Men

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• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Years

  "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Real, Men, Islands

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Rivers, Gold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

  Ovid

  Milk, Produce, Cattle

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• [Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sacrifice, Self, Belief

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.39, A&C Black

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• I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
  a crop of reflections to be reaped
  in a winter of thorn
  when icebergs of illusion will melt
  to be served at high tea
  and the spaces between the poles pinned down

  Nancy Peters

  Winter, Reflection, Space

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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.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Learning, Political, Mind

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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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 from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

  James Salter

  Children, Believe, Successful

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.69, Vintage

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• Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?

  Richard Stolley

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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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 merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

  Kenny Smith

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

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• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

  Karl Hess

  Children, Home, Exercise

  "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

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• I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Desert, Developing Countries

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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