A Quote by Norman Borlaug

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

Norman Borlaug

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Business Africa Bring Commerce Farmers Fertilizer How Ideas Know Know-How Needs Roads

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Norman Borlaug
American - Scientist
Born: March 25, 1914

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

Bruce Cockburn

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

Robert Towne

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Nelson Mandela

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

Daniel Levitin

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

Deepak Chopra

I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.

Sam Graves

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Walt Whitman

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake

Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

Bill Vaughan

We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can't have potholes, they can't break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.

Rahul Gandhi

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Amiri Baraka

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

Eugene J. Martin

Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.