Quotes About Urban Farming

#1. Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

Homaro Cantu

#2. I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#3. I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Gareth Gates

#4. Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

#5. Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. I caught my reflection in the tall mirror. I looked like one of Henry VIII's wives who'd been told she'd soon be replaced.

Andrea Cremer

#8. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#9. Someday I'd be classy if it killed me - probably not today, though.

Joanna Wylde

#10. What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Sharon Creech

#11. Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

Wendell Berry

#13. I would not change my life for anything. I have been through too much. I have learned too much. Now I know what I am made of.

Marlo Donato Parmelee

#14. This is a busy week with me and lunatics, whom I tend to see as either signs or messengers.

David Sedaris

#15. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Peter De Vries

#16. So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

Jon Stewart

#17. It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

Andrew Davidson

#18. A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

S.J Perelman

#19. The Bible says love your neighbor, not have nasty diarrhea of the mouth about your neighbor.

Delia Steele

#20. I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

Irene Cara