A Thousand Acres Quotes

#1. Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Michael Winter

#2. A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

William Petty

#3. It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Betty Buckley

#4. If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

Will Rogers

#5. Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Sissy Spacek

#6. Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Walt Whitman

#7. And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.

Edgar Lee Masters

#8. Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Ann Coulter

#9. She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old.

Gregory Maguire

#10. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

#11. My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

Daniel Dae Kim

#12. Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

Oscar Wilde

#13. One, state a hypothesis. Two, predict what will happen. Three, measure results. Four, assess lessons learned by comparing your predictions to actual outcomes.

Vijay Govindarajan

#14. You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!

Daniel Tosh

#15. The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.

Agatha Christie

#16. A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Denis Kearney

#17. I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

George Washington

#18. A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

John Gresham Machen

#19. Kingsley Lake, or "Silver Dollar Lake," is almost a perfect circle, spanning nearly two thousand acres with a surprising depth of ninety feet. The reason for the popular lake's unique shape and depth? It is one of Florida's many sinkholes.

Cary McNeal

#20. When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Meghan Trainor

#21. The shaven head and the man in white pants and the black woolen

William Peter Blatty

#22. What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

Horace

#23. What we imagine in our minds becomes our world.

Masaru Emoto

#24. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

Charmian Hussey