Top 25 Acres Quotes of 52 - Page 3

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

God, Religion, Acres

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

John Steinbeck

Wrath, Acres, Awful

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.165, Hamilton Books

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

John Moody

Land, Acres, Today

John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Jim Cummings

Acres, Woods, Hundred

Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.

Jay Leno

House, Acres, Bigs

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Franz Grillparzer

House, Stupidity, Acres

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

Derek Landy

Mean, Acres, Harm

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Rain, Acres, Forests

It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.

Brenda Peterson

Animal, Acres, Way

Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company