#quarter

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#catholic #i #jewish #my own #one-quarter

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. ↗

— John Bright

#intended #keep #law #now #price

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#been #century #destroys #families #family

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#fast #fast food #food #i #i love

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#extent #game #get #i #nfl

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#budget #clean #come #costs #day

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains