Top 85 Quotes About Fertilizer
#1. I am a rose that grew from concrete. There was no soil, fertilizer or water to nourish me; just the hand of God to show that miracles can and do happen.
Teleah Scott
#2. Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me.
Yukio Mishima
#4. Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.
Warren Eyster
#5. Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?
Dennis Sharpe
#6. Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.
Shellen Lubin
#7. Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
Satish Kumar
#8. Incidentally, if you really think organic means pure, then you're in for a helluva heartbreak. Organic farms do use pesticides and, as reported by Brian Palmer in Slate, organic wine needs eighty times more fertilizer than conventional vino.
Greg Gutfeld
#9. What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?
Michael Z. Williamson
#10. From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#11. Soulcial Shit. [Fertilizer]
you climbed under the skin I'm trying to escape.
Antonia Perdu
#12. The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
Alfred De Musset
#13. In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.
Ramez Naam
#14. I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.
Thomas Jones
#15. Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
Barbara Johnson
#16. Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#17. To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
Hermann Joseph Muller
#18. Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
J. Paul Getty
#19. As gardeners-without-borders we must ask ourselves bigger questions like: Where did these materials arise and at what cost to the place that begot them? Of course the synthetic fertilizer loses on every score; it's not even in the running. It gives us no answers; it ignores the questions.
Will Bonsall
#20. The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks ... still safer than a Toyota.
Bill Maher
#21. Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
Kate Richards O'Hare
#23. Don't bury me but instead use me as fertilizer to grow a tree..I can prove to you im useful both alive and dead
Me
#24. Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
#25. A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April.
Alice Hoffman
#26. I wondered if the owners would mind if I murdered someone in their front yard. A big red-headed someone. He was so full of shit, he'd make fantastic fertilizer for their garden
Karina Halle
#27. Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
Paul Gillmor
#28. This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
Norman Borlaug
#29. The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
David R. Brower
#30. Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey
#31. Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
Tommy Chong
#33. After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.
William Kamkwamba
#34. Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
Norman Nicholson
#35. Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
John Shimkus
#36. Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
Burning Spear
#37. People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. It's even got a pleasant name: "night soil.
Andy Weir
#38. Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.
Steve Maraboli
#39. Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Dario Fo
#41. This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
Tamora Pierce
#42. Education is the fertilizer which helps you to grow and bloom to beautify this world.
Debasish Mridha
#43. A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
Denis Waitley
#44. I'd had no idea what life or love was. Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it temperred in battle.
Karen Marie Moning
#45. I have no reason to lie. But if you want to hang out here and get eaten, far be it from me to stop you. As is, my ass is fertilizer if they catch me talking to you. (Jaden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.
Tamora Pierce
#47. I don't believe things happen by accident. I think that everything that comes into our life, even the really hard things, are intended for good. That they can shape us positively if we'll embrace them and remain teachable and purpose to use that almost like fertilizer to grow out of the experience.
Michael Hyatt
#48. Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke
#49. Author points out how easily non-agricultural people miss the picture of God as all-providing in Psalm 50:10, Word to a people for whom cattle meant plowing and fertilizer as well as meat.
Matt Chandler
#50. I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.
Pat Pattison
#51. Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.
Pat Pattison
#52. People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill Gates
#53. I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Kylie Bax
#54. Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.
Karen Marie Moning
#55. Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
Thomas Friedman
#56. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.
Brian Christian
#60. The dinosaurs had all died, too, along with their dinosaur dreams. A world capable of such genocidal indifference didn't deserve its own existence. Walt wanted to watch it wither, to crumble into shit and dirt, fertilizer for a future that would one day crumble itself.
Edward W. Robertson
#61. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
#62. A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.
Raj Patel
#63. The trick is realize that the shit that falls on you is fertilizer. -Ron Mangravite
Sarah Susanka
#64. Silicon Valley's success is built on the carcasses of its failures. In the Valley, failure is fertilizer. Like all fertilizer, though, it must be used wisely by a skilled farmer, otherwise it is useless and smells bad. As
Eric Weiner
#65. Alicia, do I sell fertilizer?" Massie asked.
"No, why?" Alicia fell for Massie's setup.
"Then why do you think I give a crap?
Lisi Harrison
#66. Her son must have folded her up, shoved her in, fired up the stove, and burned her into an ashen pile, ideal for fertilizer. That's why our tree kicked ass.
Trinie Dalton
#67. The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#68. Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.
Bill Maher
#69. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer.
Karen Marie Moning
#70. If I find a cow turd on my front steps, I'm not satisfied knowing that I'll be mentally prepared to find some future cow turd. I want to shovel that turd onto my garden and hope the cow returns every week so I never have to buy fertilizer again.*
Scott Adams
#71. [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.
Bess Truman
#72. Your methods are like slow release fertilizer; over time they produce a bountiful harvest.
Vicki Caruana
#73. I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Eartha Kitt
#74. Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Bill Gates
#75. Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.
Bill Bryson
#76. If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#77. Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
#78. Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we ever decide to stop using it - that may be the number to which our own naturally gravitates.
Alan Weisman
#79. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.
Ted Nugent
#80. A cow is an Earth-dwelling animal, a domesticated and multipurpose ungulate, which humans treat as a one-stop shop for food, liquid refreshment, fertilizer, and designer footwear.
Matt Haig
#81. Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.
Mike Godwin
#82. I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
Brandon Sanderson
#83. Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.
Jonathan Gash
#85. Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it.
Israelmore Ayivor
