Quotes About Planters

#1. No, now the domestic market is full up with other planters' troublesome slaves. Our only salvation is to scientifically breed a stable order of docile Negro. I've come up with three tenets: Isolation. Religion. Family...." Master Ben

Jonathan Odell

#2. It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.

Pat Conroy

#3. This "manna from heaven" was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them by force. Which meant a great loss of time and money for the enterprises. "Well,

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#4. Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Andy Stanley

#5. When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

Andre Leon Talley

#6. The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Stephen Ambrose

#8. We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Shane Claiborne

#9. My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Romesh Gunesekera

#10. Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

Knute Nelson

#11. One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.

Gary Rohrmayer

#12. I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Derwin L. Gray

#13. By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants.

Nancy Isenberg

#14. Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.

Salman Rushdie

#15. If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

Charles E. Merrill

#16. For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Dan Kimball

#17. On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#18. Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million."
"Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#19. ...please don't throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.

Garon Whited

#20. Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Robin Gibb

#21. An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

Gary Rohrmayer

#22. Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.

Gary Rohrmayer

#23. Here, in this universe, what differentiated science from witchcraft was that scientists had fewer resources and couldn't magically manipulate the natural world by will alone.

Josephine Angelini

#24. The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Beeban Kidron

#25. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Gary Rohrmayer

#26. A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Alan Brennert

#27. Last time I looked, I didn't have a pussy, so cut all the romantic shit"
"babe, if that's romance to you, you've been with guys who've been doing it wrong. Really goddamned wrong

S.E. Jakes

#28. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#29. Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Gary Rohrmayer

#30. Great leaders are teachable leaders.

Gary Rohrmayer

#31. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.

Gary Rohrmayer

#32. Where does contagion end and art begin?

Neil Gaiman

#33. Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Norton Juster

#34. A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#36. There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

J. Carter Brown

#37. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

Gary Rohrmayer

#38. As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

Gary Rohrmayer

#39. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#40. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.

Gary Rohrmayer

#41. This is what I have.
The dull hangover of waiting,
the blush of my heart on the damp grass,
the flower-faced moon.
A gull broods on the shore
where a moment ago there were two.
Softly my right hand fondles my left hand
as though it were you.

Mary Oliver