Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are hoping that the county will use the 16.3 acres as an elementary school site.

Ann Moore

We'll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market.

Two years ago, ... intense fires burned 739,597 acres in these national forests, destroying 3,631 homes and killing 24 people. Fuel loads may be worse this year because of grasses that have grown as a result of last winter's rains.

Mesa has got a whole lot more custom homes than Tempe or Chandler, all those orange-grove homes. There are tons of acre and acre-and-a-half home sites that are reasonably priced.

John Lasseter

Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.

Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Annie Dillard

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

David F. Houston

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

Doc Severinsen

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

Joel Salatin

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

Anderson Cooper

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

We?re lucky that the York Water District leases us about 6.5 acres of land up there. That?s how we were able to grow and expand, and they have recently added another seven acres to our 50-year lease with them ... We are hoping to build a small education center so that we can be more of a public facility.

We own just over seven acres of the upper bluff and will pursue the remaining four properties with all deliberate speed as money allows and as the owners are willing to sell.

While plantation forests are an extremely valuable resource and will undoubtedly supply an increasing portion of wood and fiber needs in the future, they should not be considered a substitute for the region's dwindling natural forests. During the past five years, the region lost more than 14.8 million acres of natural forests.

With a 20-pound (per acre) seeding rate, that's around $60 an acre for the technology for the life of the stand.

We asked these questions: What does 'obtain' mean? Are they trying to buy it or exercise the power of eminent domain? They didn't tell us whatever they were trying to do. What is the time limit? I wanted to know if they're taking 22.8 acres, which acres ? in the front, back, middle?

The other good thing about this is that (the project) is not on that 5- or 10-acre spacing like the Jonah Field ... We're talking 160 or 320 acres spacing, which is a lot more spread out.

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

We have about two million acres here that are potential agriculture and they're going out of business. This is gonna revive those.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

When you get more acres in a day, it's a bad day when you're harvesting, ... You want to be dumping as much as you can.

There are 45 parks in Wyandotte County, ranging from 1,500 acres to the tiny St. John's Park on Third Street and Armstrong.

Delta Burke

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

When the depression hit, he bought land for 50 cents an acre and cows for $1 each from his neighbors who couldn't make it.

We've owned a lot of land down there for many years. We had 12,000 acres. Now, we're adding 6,000 acres together.

Both performed well, in terms of angler trips per acre and angler trips per trout.

Shane Smith

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

We're talking about a smaller city, but a safer and hopefully more sustainable one, ... The alternative is to continue as we are, losing 60 acres (of wetlands) a day. By 2090, New Orleans would be exposed to the open sea, with no protection at all.

Bill Gross

We've been completing about 300 to 400 acres a day, which is actually a lot.

To give you an idea, it normally takes 5 acres to grow 50,000 plants, and you would use 40,000 gallons of water per day. We use 1,500 gallons per day.