#plant

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#compelled #employ #had #like #many

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ↗

— John Woolman

#had #having #i #improve #leisure

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#grow #i #just #name #planted

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage! ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#backstage #because #close #getting #i

You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#back #better #better job #go #job

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#am #beach #embrace #experiences #front

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#auto #auto industry #both #environment #help

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#fully #gone #happen #i #know

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal. ↗

— Asa Gray

#appropriated #ascertained #body #chemically #elaborated