Top 200 Acres Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

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

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

The government has confiscated over 360 acres of my choicest pastureland to build a radar intercepting station.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

I live on eight acres out in the country in Nashville, and it gets creepy and foggy. It's the best atmosphere to write songs.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

We had about 400 acres, and I'm legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.

Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

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

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars against Europeans for control of that land. And that history of dispossession, you know, if you look at the treaties, it's very interesting. Everyone thinks that Indians were ripped off in their treaties. If you look at the first round of treaties from about 1800 to the Civil War, tribes secured over 150 million acres. I think it may have been 144 million acres in those treaties. That's a large amount of real estate.

LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.

I don't like acres of faceless girls walking.

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

Being out here in the country and having acres of land, you can go outside naked if you want.

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

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.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

It certainly helped just having acres and acres of green grass, a back lawn where there's goal posts and plenty of siblings and cousins around to compete with and play against.

With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness while only opening up 6,000 acres for recreation.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

He had acres of time there.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

I lived in New Jersey in a massive house, not a 50 Cent mansion, but four bedrooms, and I had acres of land.