One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.
quote by Delta Burke
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
quote by Al Sharpton
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Cooney Potter
I inherited forty acres from my Father
And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters
From dawn to dusk, I acquired
A thousand acres. But not content,
Wishing to own two thousand acres,
I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
Squire Higbee wrongs me to say
That I died from smoking Red Eagle cigars.
Eating hot pie and gulping coffee
During the scorching hours of harvest time
Brought me here ere I had reached my sixtieth year.
poem by Edgar Lee Masters
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
quote by Betty Buckley
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
quote by William Petty
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Two watermelons can not be held under one arm.
Two watermelons cannot be carried in one hand.
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
quote by Robin Wright Penn
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Dominic
(words & music by weisman - wayne)
Dominic, dominic why are you stallin
Dont you hear love callin to you
Moo, moo, move your little foot do
Dominic, dominic pick one of them ticker
Theres acres and acres to choose
Oh, oh, only a fool would refuse
I, i, if I had your trouble
Life would be double good sweet
Thered be no grass growin under my feet
Listen dominic, dominic when will you hunger
You aint gettin younger my friend
Love, love, love em all right to the end
I, i, I cant understand you, leavin them beauties forlorn
Its time to take the old bull by the horn
Come on dominic, dominic, theyre itchin and twitchin
Better start pickin some woo
Moo, moo, move your little foot do!
song performed by by Elvis Presley
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Acres Wild
Ill make love to you
In all good places
Under black mountains
In open spaces.
By deep brown rivers
That slither darkly
Through far marches
Where the blue hare races.
Come with me to the winged isle ---
Northern fathers western child.
Where the dance of ages is playing still
Through far marches of acres wild.
Ill make love to you
In narrow side streets
With shuttered windows,
Crumbling chimneys.
Come with me to the weary town ---
Discos silent under tiles
That slide from roof-tops, scatter softly
On concrete marches of acres wild.
By red bricks pointed
With cement fingers
Flaking damply from sagging shoulders.
Come with me to the winged isle ---
Northern fathers western child.
Where the dance of ages is playing still
Through far marches of acres wild.
song performed by by Jethro Tull
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The Ethereal Turnstiles
Resins over the four corners of the earth, and
Mexican hands picking watermelons- supposing this was
Always where they were meant to show up:
Busses leaving high schools and disappearing down familiar
Roads-
Running through the smoke of chalk and seashells, trying
To raise up some god just to pass the time until they can get
Home to the trailer park of their
Television:
With the sky as rich as a snow pea: as slender and fragile,
With the airplanes smoking through
The ethereal turnstiles.
poem by Bret R. Crabrooke
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Some questions for you
How can these eggs
Break a stone?
And how can your
Spread fingers
Be a spoon?
How can you hold
Two watermelons
With one hand?
How can you be
Happy with
A thousand
Desires?
How can your
One hand
Eclipse the sun?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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How can these eggs
Break a stone?
And how can your
Spread fingers
Be a spoon?
How can you hold
Two watermelons
With one hand?
How can you be
Happy with
A thousand
Desires?
How can your
One hand
Eclipse the sun?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.
quote by Robert Grosseteste
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