It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop
George Eliot
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GEORGE ELIOT I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I d...
MARGO JEFFERSON My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax ...
DOROTHY PARKER It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
GEORGE ELIOT When prices are good, farmers take care of their crop a little better.
JAMES LEDESMA It's not a bumper crop and the size is down a little, ... But, the flavor has been good, and the sug...
ISAAC HORST I thought we'd have a good year. We were right at .500 last year on the season, and we got a pretty ...
AL MURDOCH It's not perfect. But George Mitchell is credible. He should do a good job.
FAY VINCENT For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...
HOWARD JACOBSON Last year was a fairly good-sized crop. We were just lucky there was no carryover from the year befo...
BILL BITZENBURG George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's te...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Strawberries are having a great crop and everything else is looking good. This year, overall, we sho...
TREY SMITH Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high,...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Jeremy...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm ...
DESMOND TUTU We came within an eyelash of losing the whole crop last spring but we are sitting better right now,
TOM CONDON Don't mess with the best or youll die like the rest
LUDO MILNE We've had to re-establish the program over the last three years after graduating a strong crop of ki...
ANNE HORTON Get some of those old-crop beans sold, get some of the new-crop beans sold. We do see some producers...
JOE VICTOR It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, b...
ISAAC HORST That is a good cushion going into the next crop year.
TERRY FRANCL We may have had a little dip the last couple of years, but the ratings this year are holding their o...
ED MOORHOUSE My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot...
A. S. BYATT The color is off, the quantity is down some, but otherwise, (the crop) is looking pretty good.
BOB DOUGLAS SR The U.S. has abruptly changed its policies in the last couple of years. It took Israel a little whil...
GERALD STEINBERG Kreacher said nothing,” said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, �...
J.K. ROWLING Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.
CAROLINE DEWAAL Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.
CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL Cashew is a winner crop, from its fruit to root, every part is useful
SOTONYE ANGA Declaring your faith is like adding manure to a crop to hasten its manifestation.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD What can I say? ... You never can predict. You never know about any one melon until you cut into it....
JOHN HAND The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all et...
R.J. PETERS A great presentation is like a good espresso. I call it 'crema' the crop.
LILY CHATTERJEE Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS My mouth is watering for this fight, I am hungry for it, ... He has been disrespectful to me but it'...
DANNY WILLIAMS I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occa...
HOWARD JACOBSON But the project, from beginning to end, was a little over two years, from the time we wrote the prop...
THOMAS KELLER Felipe is having a good year. He had a little trouble the last couple of weeks, but he's coming back...
DENNIS LYBERGER It wasn't like the last crop of summer movies were that much better than this summer,
MARC SHMUGER I wish I could have gotten in there and played a little bit more, but I didn't get the chance to do ...
ANTHONY MORELLI I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; ju...
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Typically around this time of year we're already starting to harvest, but because of the hurricane i...
CASEY PACE The mayor and George have enjoyed a warm relationship for years.
JOE RAMALLO You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet
ALAN KING You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
ALAN KING This part of the house is about 150 years old, so we tried to do as little as possible to maintain i...
JOE HUTTON We've played against each other the last couple years, so a little bit of the thrill is gone, but th...
DYLAN REESE In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids...
JUAN WILLIAMS I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the...
MARGARET HALSEY It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect...
PERCY JOHNSTON Every crop or food changes its form once cooked, after cooking, you cannot return it to its original...
SOTONYE ANGA I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.
HOWLIN' WOLF George Ryan is my last witness -- we want to get everything done before George Ryan takes the stand.
DAN K. WEBB Youll never know how strong you truly are, until u get under some weight.
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III The last two years we have been a real young team. Last year we started seven or eight sophomores, b...
GLENN MCANINCH That'll last us about three years because we use so little.
ERIC LAHEY Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug...
THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo...
THE WONDER YEARS You might call him a promiscuous sitter, ... He would sit for just about any artist in the last 10 y...
FRED VOSS Our demographics have been changing the last few years - with three sales in five years, that will m...
JOE LEONE The acorn crop is really good. Both burr and red oaks have a lot of acorns.
KEVIN MORGAN It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we won b...
JOSH ACIUKEWICZ It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years
but we wo...
JOSH ACIUKEWICZ Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, b...
CARY FOWLER Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the la...
MARTIN MILNER It's good that we got slapped around a little bit to understand what we have to do to win in the pla...
MIKE D'ANTONI George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever hea...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR It's a departure for me, ... I can't walk through the airport in Singapore without a little kid hang...
BRENDAN FRASER My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
JANE AUSTEN The economics of the industry are good. But my ability to predict what happens in negotiations over ...
DONALD FEHR Federated had two good years in 1998 and 1999, but before that its performance was middling at best,...
BRIDGET HUGHES I think the dam is still in good condition. But I know standards have changed in the last 75 years.
GUY MCBRIDE Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, fo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop....
NINA GEORGE It regressed a little the last two days from when it was real good,
BRAD ARNSBERG Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of c...
JANE AUSTEN The last couple of years have been really good to me.
ANTHONY GAGLIARDI The last time I played this stadium was with George Strait.
KENNY CHESNEY It's always good to have a little breather and have a break and kind of regroup before the last litt...
ROD BRIND'AMOUR We've been a pretty good offense over the last five years, and I don't anticipate us not being a goo...
JAVON WALKER It's the last time I'm going to wrestle here. It's sad, but I'm going to go away with a bunch of goo...
MACK LEWNES Fools grow without watering.
THOMAS FULLER Folly growes without watering.
GEORGE HERBERT Last year, we probably had seven or eight teams ranked in the top 25. This year, we don't have as ma...
BRIAN CRAIG It's kind of like a double crop. Farming your crop on land and harvesting the wind.
JAN JOHNSON It felt good because they've murdered us for the last two years.
ANDY DICK It's a tough loss being my last year and my last school match. I do have four years of college wrest...
KYLE RODGERS Adam has improved immensely over the last two years he did a good job for us.
JASON ROSTORFER In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man, or the good work th...
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GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our eg...
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of...
GEORGE ELIOT Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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