Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now."
Acres quotes
Acres
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching."
Carl Andre
Artist
"SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours."
Betty Buckley
Actress and Singer
"It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette."
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"I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre."
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"For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt."
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"There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed."
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"It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal."
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"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?"
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"An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch."
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"If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East."
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"In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed."
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"Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood."
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"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."
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