Crop Quotes

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. (Ovid)
It's but little good you'll do awatering the last year's crop. View quote
George Eliot
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. View quote
Margaret Sanger
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. View quote
Michael Chabon
Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined. View quote
Sadao Araki
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. View quote
William Dean Howells
The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things. View quote
Max Horkheimer
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story. (Noam Chomsky)
Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. View quote
Allan Savory
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. View quote
Barry Mann
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop. View quote
Graeme Murphy
When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites. View quote
Graham Parker
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. View quote
Ken Auletta
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. (Morley Callaghan)
There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands. View quote
Peter Garrett
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them. View quote
Richard Hell
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? View quote
Tom Barrett
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. View quote
Michael Pollan