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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English Proverb

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We believed we had the proper authorization to build the plant and build it where it is.

Norma Dunn

The workers in the plant, the public and certainly the victims and their families really deserve to know everything that OSHA found before some of it was traded away behind closed doors.

Mike Wright

It's more related to plant biology than weather. But weather is a deciding factor on whether or not you can burn on any given day.

Andy Sudbrock

So as you increase carbon dioxide, plant growth is actually boosted.

Steve Long

We predict, there will be a large deficit of corn in the world, and we have the opportunity to cover the deficit as we have a large area for corn planting.

Fadel Muhammad

If between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., it gets two or less hours of direct sunlight, then you can really only work with shade plants. Two to four hours of direct sunlight, then you can work with mixed plants. If it's greater than four hours in that area, then you can work with a full sun plant.

Michael Hillegas

The main concern to Iran's reaction isn't the U.S., but that Israel could decide to bomb the nuclear plant. Stability in the area depends on who's in charge in Israel.

Anette Einarsen

We need a new location to house these people who are going to be involved in the new nuclear plant market. Western Pennsylvania is the prime candidate and will remain the headquarters for our entire Westinghouse business.

Vaughn Gilbert

We sent out about 120 letters to people who we thought might have an interest in seeing an ethanol plant being built. We have to get everything in line and together for this to move forward and we'll need some help.

Brian Kletscher

The zinnia was probably the outstanding one of the total group. It's a big plant with very nice flowers that didn't seem to be affected by diseases.

Dave Wildung

The company will not be impacted by the recent Ford Motor Company plant closing announcement.

P.c. Snapp

All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.

Carol Allen

It's all about the dollar signs. Even though we're the best quality plant in the Ford system, it comes down to the dollar.

Chris Kimmons

Industrial hemp is different in that it has the opportunity to develop an industry based on total plant utilization.

Keith Watson

The number of victims in Colombia is climbing because illegal armed groups continue to plant mines in order to protect their illicit crops.

Luz Piedad Herrera

The mechanics had more to do with timing and footwork and balance; it's all lower body getting his feet underneath him planting and throwing the football. He's going to fix that up pretty fast.

Dan Mullen

That's the bad news. The good news is fairly normal precipitation this spring would get . . . much of the state up to normal before spring planting begins.

Harry Hillaker

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

Michael Thompson

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

Mike Tyson

People generally see what kind of life you have growing up. Even if you do get a college degree, you get in at the plant because you know at least you can provide a good life for your family.

Wachauna Johnson

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.

Anne Raver

They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anything that would meet the air-quality requirement. We don't know how long that will take.

Bill Hayden

Somebody should have done their homework to determine whether the plant was eligible or not. If I was the plant (manager), I would be assuming that if they could manage to have a press conference in front of the plant, that I would be eligible for the program.

John Tory

The choice isn't wind or nothing. It's wind or a fossil-fuel plant.

Richard Kessel

The landscaping will be one of the final things that will go in. You won't see any planting or anything of that nature until the latter part of the project.

Rolando Garcia

At a conventional coal-fired power plant, you try to capture emissions as they are coming out of the stack. With an IGCC plant, you get the pollutants out before they reach the atmosphere.

Jeri Matheney

Sludge is made up a lot of different chemicals and petroleum that is used in the plant. The basic process is to let it burn and when the sludge is almost gone, then the extinguishing occurs.

Steve Patterson

One healthy little plant, ready to go.

Richard Moyroud

Your child is really involved in not only the life of the plant but the ongoing life of a butterfly.

Author Richard Louv

We prune and remove about 8,000 trees a year. And every year we plant around 2,500.

Scott Butler

We have closed down nine gas wells due to the disruption in gas supply to the power plant.

Nripen Bharali

We have to plant the seeds for the next decade and beyond.

Ceo Fujio Mitarai

It's interesting to see this very complex plant disease as a potential source of medicine for a very difficult human disease.

Larry Kleingartner

Auto jobs are good-paying jobs, and there are a lot of them. I don't know anyone who would want to get rid of an auto plant. But when you look at the world economy, the fiercest competition is in autos, and this region is very, very dependent on autos for its manufacturing base.

John Slenker

It's amazing how one plant can make a home smell like spring.

Matt Maxwell

Our corporation is not going to invest any more money into this plant.

Ross Campbell

Keep in mind that fortified foods should be treated like supplements — only to help you meet nutrient needs you cannot otherwise meet— not replace the goal of a balanced, plant-based diet.

Karen Collins

When a new plant opens, it could be doing bad things for years before the people find out about it.

John Ryan

With the six-speed operation, it does require less manpower. The hope would be that the plant would get more volume going forward.

Ben Ippolito

The bottom line is that DES couldn't in a lawful manner authorize the continued connections to the plant.

Stephen Roberts

My mother said azaleas are like decorative objects -- you should move them at will. She had no compunction about moving a plant if it wasn't doing its job.

Signe Cann

This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow.

Dan Hill

I'm 110 percent for the coal-fired plant.

John Stevens

Our first shipment after Katrina was steel that was in one of our terminals. It arrived before Katrina, and they barged to the Hyundai plant in Alabama less than two weeks after Katrina.

Chris Bonura

The airplanes, the physical plant and production capacity of the industry doesn't change if a carrier goes out of business.

David Swierenga

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

Emergencies happen. Whether it's repairs to the firehouse or the co-generation plant, the heating and cooling units to the high school, these things happen. That's why we have a savings account to draw from.

Richard Kehoe

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

If you have a 70 to 80 percent plant-based diet, it will allow for a low-fat diet. If a person eats fruits, veggies, legumes, and grains, they will be healthier, and weight-loss will follow.

Wendy Lee

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

(Utilities) are negligent to their ratepayers if they are not considering building a concentrating solar plant in the next five years.

Rhone Resch

It's always a percentage based on a target system. You have plant targets, department targets and personal targets. It's not like everybody gets $1,000 or everybody gets $10,000.

Bunny Richardson

I've played with and against (Anderson) almost my whole life in club. When I saw which way his plant foot was going, I knew I had it.

Jeff Attinella

For example, this was the case for arid and semi-arid areas where lawn irrigation and planting changed the ecosystems from shrub lands and desert to deciduous forests.

Marc Imhoff

The key drivers as we invest in these markets are fuel prices. The decision whether to build a new coal plant is: What do you think will happen to gas prices?

Alex Urquhart

Even though there are controls placed on the processing, the smell that will come out from the new plant would be overpowering.

James Brennan

About 25 percent of new drugs are plant-based, and it is not the scientists who have maximum knowledge, it is the tribal people who have been using these plants for generations.

V. K. Gupta

There is going to be lineup a mile long a mile wide for this plant. The winner will be the jurisdiction that will pay for it, pure and simple.

Dennis Desrosiers

I wish we had the staff for annual inspections, ... The (latest UI power plant) inspection was precipitated by a complaint from an employee there.

Mary Bryant

I heard there was some discussion concerning the Wellsville plant. There is no way we can take that kind of loss. As the representative for this area, I will do anything I can.

Joe Giglio

We have a wonderful physical plant in place. The key is to focus on the consumer and what they want and not get enamored with the technology. If we focus on the consumer, we should see all the technologies as opportunities.

Glenn Britt

We believe there's evidence that a few unionized inspectors are expressing support for the UFCW local 401 by staying away from the plant to keep it from operating.

Gary Mickelson

The products shipped in Europe are from a plant in Europe.

Ronald Zarrella

As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facility as well. We are investigating some additional opportunities that are coming up with our facility.

Paul Wilbur

We already have all of our local people staged. We have both the steam and diesel plant and we've been generating for AEP for the last three days. In the event that we lose power, we can generate between our steam and diesel plant.

George Rolfe

It's really magic to cut off one plant and make it grow into another, and so the magic of plant science is exciting and it's very real, and they can do it very quickly and we like that part.

Joe Sabol

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Wade Wimmer

The initial investment is about $50 million, but this will be added to each month as the plant expands production.

Vyacheslav Bresht

We have the access to the water, which you need for a nuclear plant. We also are situated in an area where there appears to be ample land there for it. I'm hoping that some of those things work to Citrus County's advantage, ... We would be delighted to have another nuclear plant here.

Vicki Phillips

It goes deep into the economy. A lot of people depend on the Ford plant, from the little lunch shops that are around the plant, to the hardware stores, to you name it.

Donald Goldberg

This is a constructive thing to do with anger and grief. Planting a tree or a garden is a way to acknowledge the frustration in a positive way.

Gorman Parrish

We'll do the fastest things first. It's easier to screw in a light bulb than it is to build a new power plant, so we'll do the conservation thing starting right away.

Debra Bowen

Certainly, gas plants cost a lot less money to build than a coal plant.

Roberto Denis

Right now, there is no product assigned to the plant beyond its current product.

Dan Flores

We haven't come up with an exact plan of where the money will be spent. We have to weigh our physical plant needs and our program needs.

Jedd Gould

We did not talk directly about Highland Park. Quite honestly, the folks that came out here were not decision makers on the (plant).

Matt Kramer

Things are going well and we expect to continue with planting in the next month.

Nancy Chambers

What we have to do is get the plant inspected.

Gene Detroyer

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

Carolus Linnaeus

Something will be there, we know that. We're not opposing anything and/or everything. But of all things, why an asphalt plant?

Sam Kim

We're a merchant plant that will sell the electricity to any company that needs it, including AEP or First Energy. And while we've had some delays, we're still very committed to bringing our plant online in the very near future.

Bob Varley

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

They help me out when I need help at planting or harvest.

Bill Kremlacek

Due to skyrocketing costs for energy, raw materials and health care, CTNA cannot continue to operate the Charlotte plant with our current manufacturing cost structure.

Alan Hippe

I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.

Alan Cox

Right now if a Toyota (plant) came together, there'd be 16 people fighting for them. Competition can be a good thing as long as it doesn't become destructive.

Art Collins

Given that fact, the timing, and the rate at which the fires moved, the damage to the plant community might not be as bad as we think it is.

Dr. Ted Mccollum

I was impressed by how interested everyone was in our little Maui plant. It's small, but it's real.

Robert King

We couldn't run the plant if 300 to 400 retire. The question is, who is going to replace those people if they retire?

Jim Kaster

The Chamber has been and will continue to work hard to fill that void of the plant closing.

Johnny Dalton

It's their physical plant and the way it's laid out that drove them to that decision. Based on cost per homes passed, it's also more economical right now. It's not locked in stone, and this merger could have an impact.

Jeff Porter

Less is often more when it comes to entry planting.

Greg Stack

The conversion of the existing plant will provide for the retention of a skilled and experienced group of employees, thereby avoiding a plant closing and the loss of well-paid jobs in the Columbus community.

Peter Kelly

It's right next to a sewer treatment plant!

Kat Gordon

What was happening, you had pastors who had been gearing up for all of their life to go plant a church somewhere . . . and now, all of the sudden, they're realizing there's no land out there.

Harold Christ

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Fish

We are keeping the plant running by operating with fewer people.

Marybeth Thorsgaard

We were successful in getting more than 700 of our people into the plant, and we have had production at the plant.

Gary Mickelson

If the company doesn't make money, the plant doesn't exist, so we need the company to make the money, we need them to share it with the workers.

Doug O'halloran

If we have to build the wells and treatment plant, we're prepared to, but I'm very optimistic that we won't have to go that route.

G. Jean Verbos

(Homer Electric) has been through the plant.

Aaron Miller

One needs to have a balanced body, and diets high in saturated fats won't provide a healthful diet. Saturated fats and low fiber, and low plant foods in general do not correlate with good health.

Wendy Lee

Cutting down the number of noodle varieties in the market sounds like a good move as it will help the company to focus. Cutting jobs, especially the plant workers, may not reduce costs by much.

Arfan Karniody

It's like taxing Pepsi to build a Coke manufacturing plant.

Richard Broome

Without the grant approval for the new project from the Israeli government, we would have decided against Israel as a location for FAB 28. But the grant approval together with an established workforce and infrastructure made Israel the best place for the new plant.

Alex Kornhauser

The big driver to this is that the primary pipe that takes liquids from our Opal plant now is the Mid-America Pipeline ... that pipeline is quickly reaching capacity.

Kelly Swan

I didn't plant Gewurztraminer because I already had Riesling and felt that it was my niche wine. And after all, there was already plenty of good Gewurztraminer in Anderson Valley.

Allen Green

We do not feel at any time that the security of the plant has been in jeopardy.

Marc Shapiro

The management of the home's physical plant is one major issue for improving the quality of life for an aging population.

Gregory Abowd

One night he made $254 from a home run, which was twice what most ballplayers made in a month. And for every home run Joe hit, a packing plant in Roswell would give him a cured ham. That always kept some of the other players in food.

Jim Waldrip

There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels.

Gary Monk

It's unfortunate we were unable to get the Nissan business. They came out, reviewed our plant, had excellent remarks about the facility, but we were never able to get any business with them.

Jim Finley

We use it primarily for extremely hot and extremely cold weather to have a buffer. So, in case a plant goes down, we don't have massive rolling blackouts like in the Northeast.

Bob Coleman

On some days, the plant has been operating at a full load. The steam you see is normal.

Art Larson

There are huge health and safety violations in every plant.

Jennifer Rosenbaum

We are trying to plant the seed.

Ann Kraft

The Lord called me to plant a church.

Bobby Rush

The enterprise zone abatement was a big incentive in getting this plant financed. Now at the end of the day, if they don't get it, would they build it? Maybe. But I can guarantee you it will never become a 100-million gallon plant, but maybe a 50-million gallon plant. I can also guarantee you that this will be the only thing that will come to this neck of the woods.

Walker Filbert

For however long the plant operates, we have sufficient room to store things, but that's not the desirable option.

David Tarantino

We have more than 1,000 of our team members who turned out this morning to work at the plant, ... They met at a staging area and that number far exceeds the 200 people on the picket line.

Gary Mickelson

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

It's really a combination of prices and weather. Historically, if we have had good weather for planting and if prices are ahead of the average for the last few years, that has encouraged more corn acres.

Robert Wisner

Maytag is on a mission to close our plant.

Jim Repace

An 11-ft-long portion of the pipeline blew up and gas supply to the plant stopped.

Abdul Samad Lasi

The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.

John Dee

By holding at this power level, we are ensuring we maintain ample margins to ensure plant reliability.

Jay Thayer

The generator could only power part of the plant before, now we can operate the entire plant -- business like usual.

Scott Langel

Solidarity is of the opinion that New Holland is committing a grave error in doing away with so many jobs and in moving the manufacturing plant to Johannesburg.

Reint Dykema

Heather pitched a great game and besides really one (Plant) hit, nothing was hit very hard. It was a great way to get the playoffs started.

Bob Diez

They can grow on their own: plant the seeds, harvest the produce, learn how to cook with it, take it home, learn about nature, the environment and integrate what they learned in the classroom into the garden.

Jan Mcdonald

Wheat is a hardy plant but it can't survive everything. It's not a very good situation.

Mark Ploger

It's not about planting flags in as many places as you can. It's about owning successful terminals in as many places as you can.

Neil Davidson

We're trying to squeeze the most out of every plant we have.

Jim Leonard

We've been interested in encouraging the owner, whomever that is, to think about moving the plant farther back. We would still like to see it move because we believe the beach area has a better use than a plant.

Jim Elliott

I don't think people have had a real handle on what the early planting and early-maturing varieties have meant to the South.

Alan Blaine

The first couple of years it was slow because people at the plant didn't have the time or the people dedicated to work on implementing changes.

Todd R. Bested

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

We did put a bid out for that specific plant. I do know we've had several conversations with them.

Weston Sedgwick

That's a nuance that is left, really, to the bargaining table. We told the union that despite the fact that we're going to continue operating the plant, we are very interested, always have been, in reaching a new agreement.

Alan Mccoy

We're going to go home and plant more roses now. This is all just beautiful.

Barbara King

It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think so.

James Hudson

Dow should pay for the thousands of tons of lethal chemicals that have been dumped recklessly at the plant site. These are a health hazard and have to be cleaned up.

Satinath Sarangi

When the girls need to run somewhere after work or to an appointment, they can just shower at the plant.

Louise Driver

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

James Wright

It?s going to be one of the first things you see when you walk out on the plant floor.

Brian Tapajna

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Saskya Pandita

Well I love the way the world is your gardenAnd you plant your seeds and you let them growAnd you take things out of the ground just likeYou take what comes, but you never know.

Dar Williams

I eat as much organic and plant-based foods as possible.

Coryne Tasca

People get blinded by the marijuana issue. ... We don't want people planting asparagus on the land, either. This is agricultural assault on a national park, no matter what they're growing.

Alexandra Picavet

Had the NRC known that the plant was being operated with leakage ... the agency would have taken immediate action to shut down the plant.

James Caldwell

There has never been a full-scale evacuation at the plant.

Tom Sullivan

There is no production (at the Saudi plant) at all? We are losing $1.5 million in sales every day.

Jan Pedersen

A year ago, the industry came out aggressive with pricing to the farmers. I think the farmers responded by planting more acres.

Steve Kent

That's part of the carrot you put out with communities as you're closing a plant.

Alan Baum

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

Continued operation of our facilities has allowed us to improve our technology and increase throughput efficiencies. This increased capacity is very important in any plant, but particularly for a ship-based design where deck space is limited.

Jack Holmes

There are a lot of us who are concerned about this plant.

Lisa Hardiman

We don't foresee any major impact on supply in the market because the production that normally comes out of this furnace was shifted the other ones at the plant.

Tami Didiza

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Donald Culross Peattie

The plant can operate 24/7 (24 hours, 7 days a week). It's about improving the cycle time.

Kelly Glass

China is building the equivalent of a 500-megawatt power plant every week.

Bill Ruckelshaus

His evidence showed that the pollen must have been from a plant called Gundelia which is found in the Middle East and Turkey.

Adrian Wilson

The goal is to help us do with products what we did with manufacturing at the Rouge Plant.

Jon Pepper

We're also making an extension to our Milwaukee plant that will start by the end of the year.

Lars Frederiksen

We look at two things. Whether [plant operators] have programs in place to manage aging equipment and whether continued operation would cause damage to the environment.

Diane Screnci

We're donating the materials and helping with the design. But the kids, along with volunteers, will plant their own garden.

Ron Reed

Planting a flag, trying to establish some ground rules that we are comfortable with to create this new kind of commerce around book content.

Richard Sarnoff

The local culture is another important aspect to consider when thinking about what kinds of things you want to attract. For example, the city of Ann Arbor probably would not be the best place for a automotive manufacturing plant, but in Ypsilanti, they already have facilities in place so perhaps that's the best kind of community for that kind of project.

Michael Finney

We don't believe in any way the plant is any less secure. We believe that they're properly implementing their security plan.

Roger Hannah

At that point, all bets were off. We were moving into the final stages of issuing a contract for the design and building of (the new) treatment plant. So of course, if the bank was demolished before we get to that point, we'd be up a creek.

Hugh Holub

If you pull a loaf of bread off a shelf, most likely it came from our plant.

Alan Mersnick

When that [co-generation plant] lost the ability to provide steam, which is essential to our operation, we had to implement our emergency shutdown procedures.

Aaron Woods

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

David Hartley

As the plant grows it is drawing carbon dioxide out of the air.

Steve Long

They're not going to know that for certain until they shut the plant down and get into the containment building and get a closer look.

Neil Sheehan

I am disturbed by the testimony that a plant that appears to be good for the ratepayers of Entergy will back away because they don't get the rate (arrangement) they want.

Michael Callahan

A wafer fab (fabrication plant) is something very complex and a difficult business to run and operate.

Craig Addison

There's not a lot out there, and I started looking in different fields. I was shocked and excited to see the plant reopen.

Larry Duncan

If we did that, we'd take the life of the landfill from 30-plus years down to 10 years. The county's philosophy always has been to extend the life of the landfill. That's why we burn trash at the plant in Fosston.

Bill Olson

We're looking to identify possible locations for new hires over the next eight to 10 years. We need a new location to house these people who are going to be involved in the new nuclear plant market.

Vaughn Gilbert

There's a lot of plant and equipment investment going into Rutland because it is one of the most productive plants in the GE system.

Patrick Kennedy

Nobody's going to get a free plant out of this. This is a jump-start program. It is intended to get the first handful of plants built. After that, the incentive will stop.

John Kane

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Greek Proverb

We're planting seeds. We're trying to help them grow.

Paul Ratanasiripong

Mostly the rain has come at a good time for our warm-season hay crops. We have a lot of farmers who will be planting some hay crops.

Robert Seay

We will also be planting native grasses and shrubs in the landscaping beds at Fortress Rosecrans. We are asking for volunteers to come out and help us with the project.

Angela Jackson

They were picketing a union plant.

Gene Mancini Jr

If we could do over the issue of the beef plant, I think it was just the location.

Jerry Bach

It's just the seed to plant.

Jim Phipps

It's planting the seed so when they become 18, they'll be able and willing.

Dan Cappon

[We are] planting seeds of questions about their own behavior and attitudes.

Alison Homan

The Perry plant continues to operate safely.

James Caldwell

This is a pretty bulletproof plant because it was completely redone. It's always been a plant that Ford has protected because it has a good work force.

George Hoffer

The list for exotic anoles or lizards found in Florida is increasing yearly. Most of these animals have pet trade connections, with additional entry opportunities due to cargo stowaways, plant industry and freight shipments and hurricanes.

Chris Koeppel

We don't think that Mr. Sharon is coming to plant roses all around the road between here and Jerusalem. He is going to come with more aggression, with more atrocities against our people.

Marwan Kanafani

[Meanwhile, Wharton has momentum after rallying to beat Plant City 27-14 last week.] I haven't even mentioned the Cup to them, ... I have just mentioned executing.

David Mitchell