Top 245 Crops Quotes & Sayings

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing nations by producing disease-resistant or drought-resistant strains of staple crops like cassava or bananas.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

This universe knows about me and my crops.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

Hybrids have become an important method for improving productivity or yield in many crops including the self-pollinated crop like rice.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

There is broad scienti?c consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.

Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.