Thousand Acres Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

William Petty

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !

Louis C.K.

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

Horace

#11. And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

Beth Revis

#12. A big move into the "internet of things", the next big battleground between dominant technology groups.

Anonymous

#13. Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.

Jasper Fforde

#14. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Mark Twain

#15. 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

#16. In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

Sally Kirkland