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I guess it was part of their dream, not after the fact but before the fact when they were still dating they already had an interest in that ranch. There's a sadness to the story.

Guy Rocha

The boot is a tribute to the ranch my dad loves so much. It's a tribute to the cattle and livestock and a really nice way of life.

Dewey Mitchell

We have an 11-, 12- or 13-item Planning Commission meeting coming up. We're seeing major subdivisions coming our way. We're getting maps left and right for [planned communities] Loma Vista and Harlan Ranch.

Dwight Kroll

For four days there were warnings that the hurricane was going to make a direct hit, and the king of vacations at his ranch only said, 'You must flee,' ... He did not say how.

Hugo Ch

Hey, you can't take anything away from Lakewood Ranch. They put their bats on the ball, threw strikes and played good defense.

Bob Bruglio

When we got into this case, ranchers all along the border were allowing these types to come on their property, ... Now, they're very leery of it, especially when they see someone loosing their ranch because of it.

Morris Dees

I never had any intention of leaving the cowboy lifestyle. Ranching is who I am.

Derrick Glover

The work we did last November saved that ranch. It's almost a straight line from the burn area and our project line - it's just a scorched area and then it hit our project area and nothing.

Vinnie Picard

No Highlands Ranch team has gone 5-0 to start the season.

Bruce Wright

I think one of the things about some mountain courses is that you have to hit irons off the tee. With some of the terrain, you have to lay up. Eagle Ranch is a really straight-forward course where you can pull your driver.

Jeff Boyer

We are blazing some exciting trails for 2006 and beyond, and you can bet the ranch on it.

Doug Newton

With our strong emphasis on green building in homes, it's the next natural step in the progression. We're pleased. It fits in well with what we're trying to do in Lakewood Ranch.

Sondra Guffey

The new signs will make it easier for people, especially visitors, to find their way around Lakewood Ranch. It will also make it safer because the drivers will find it easier to read the signs.

Sondra Guffey

Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

Richard Roeper

It's cheap and it's ranch country. I like the sight of the mountains.

Robert Duvall

At this time the developer plans to develop 2,000 lots in the Sunrise MUD and 800 lots in the Union Valley Ranch MUD. Those are preliminary estimates.

Ross Martin

This was a targeted attack on the faculty at Scripps Ranch High School.

Chandra Carle

I got to know Karl [Malone] pretty well. We went hunting and snowmobiling a couple of times. He's got a huge ranch compound. It's ridiculous.

Tony Massenburg

We'll get established in the residential areas and the new developments south of here. We'll pull people in from west Bradenton, from further east and from Lakewood Ranch.

Cynthia Bartlett

He met with everybody down (here) and he had his heart set on the Chicken Ranch.

George Flint

I wasn't afraid at all. Growing up on a ranch, you're never afraid.

Isaac Gonzales

I've got a chance to make it back to the bowl (game). I don't know how good of a chance. I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.

Kellen Clemens

I think the wise course of action, the compassionate course of action, the better course of action would have been to immediately invite her in to the ranch.

Chuck Hagel

I highly respect (Highlands Ranch) and if you want to get to the next level you have to go through them anyway. So it wouldn't matter if you played them next game or three games down the line. You got to play them anyway.

Nick Barnes

The house wasn't for sale, but we wanted to sew it up for our future. We saw the growth at Eagle Ranch and neighboring communities and wanted to have some room for the youth.

Charlyn Canada

The three favorites of the district, as I was told when I took the job, are Venice, Port Charlotte and Lakewood Ranch.

Rick Bohlander

We think there are a lot of good models out there that could make a difference for local ranching families.

Heidi Dearment

My dad raised cattle on a small ranch. After the brandings, my brother and I would ride the calves. Pretty soon, we were competing in junior rodeos. It's just something I've always loved.

Cody Horwedel

And there is a difference between the neighborhoods in south Tempe near Circle G Ranch and the neighborhoods near University and McClintock.

Mike Gardner

I personally am hoping to educate people about housing up here and how Long Gulch Ranch fits into the housing priorities here.

Dan Levin

Running the ranch everyday and being able to survive in agriculture is an accomplishment.

Marie Kast

We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely wild birds.

Katharine Armstrong

The ranching families in the area have just been devastated. They've lost a lot of equipment, a lot of buildings, a lot of livestock.

Gene Hall

When I was driving through their property trying to get to the back ranch. I was speeding. I'm kind of a reckless driver.

John Joseph Lynch

I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. During my senior year of college Tom was looking for a building to start his boys' ranch. I went with him to look at the building that became the home of Butterfield Boys' Ranch.

Larry W. Arrowood

Growing up on a ranch, we worked hard every day.

Isaac Gonzales

We got rid of the kids because the dog was allergic. We definitely have a lot of sweat equity invested in this ranch because we love it.

Sharon Blanchard

This field is part of an active, diversified agricultural operation and ... is irreplaceable. It is part of an historic ranch that has been kept whole by our family for 85 years. The continued operation of our business would be seriously compromised by an adjacent medical complex with its sensitivity to odor, sound and dust.

Joe Leveroni

I challenged the guys to get off to a quick start. We needed quick strikes. That was our plan. Lakewood Ranch can be very dangerous.

Rene Mirandilla

Where Matthew got his tag there was a zoo of hunters in the motorized areas. Where we were, we saw over 200 elk a day and almost no other hunters. It was almost like we had our own private ranch.

Randy Newberg

Interest and advocacy groups' response to the purchasing of older animals has been very limited. Now more than ever, we need stewards from the ranching community and other supporters who care about public lands to step up and purchase these horses.

Mike Byrne

You walk into a $100,000 ranch house, with this ceiling it looks like a million-dollar room.

John Dorman

The basis came from the ranch world and the duties of the cowboy. They have just modified it and obviously just speeded it up.

Hadley Barrett

The ranch has a duty to make sure its hillside stays on its property.

Robert Walters

[Bush] reflects ... an exceptionally good work-life balance at the level he's at. When I see [Bush] walking around on his ranch, I feel comforted that I'm in better hands than if he wasn't doing that.

Jim Bird

SMR has a commitment to spending money to make money and they're not afraid to put money behind things they believe in. It's apparent everywhere in Lakewood Ranch.

Chuck Madden

From the time they were small, our children learned to pot plants, make cuttings and pull weeds, ... We have worked very, very hard for a long time. And that's what this ranch is all about.

John Faulkner

Almost immediately we knew there was a greater demand than we had the capacity to handle at Green Valley Ranch. So really as soon as we opened the room at Green Valley Ranch we went back to the drafting board to draw up plans for a bigger room.

Weldon Russell

Almost everyone knows Taliesin West. Almost no one knows the first camp that gave form to Taliesin West and its form and its character was on Mountain Park Ranch.

Vernon Swaback

With the two extremes, ranching was either something to be done away with, or something that shouldn't be questioned and that everyone ought to support, with no debate about it. People would just dig in their heels.

Bill Mcdonald

From what we learn in applying a process tailored to each of the three ranches ... a model will be developed for integrated agriculture/wildlife planning and management that will have the capabilities of application on any Wyoming ranch.

Dave Lockman

The amount of inventory we had in Lakewood Ranch was historically low last year.

Milt Flynn

The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.

Ray Krauss

We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch.

Chad Allen

He could decide to go to the ranch, but that is difficult to believe.

Hanan Crystal

If there was ever a time for intelligent design, it is now. Because we will need divine intervention to fix it (Harris Ranch) later if we do it wrong.

Pete White

We're building a ranch plan based on a home we had previously done. We really liked this home plan, and when you build a house you are always thinking what if we did this or that differently. It appealed to us so much that we brought the plan, which we named the Encore, with our changes to the committee, and they agreed.

Sara Jones

We were neck and neck with the Ranch, leading by two runs in the fifth inning and losing the lead in the sixth.

Abe Yamada

I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.

Tom Wordell

One of the most disturbing aspects of the tax is that it can destroy a family business, or force the sale of a family ranch or farm.

Wayne Allard

We hope to sell a lot of them, and we will be selling them up until the 24th, ... Along with that, we're putting on a lamb and goat show out at Gibbs Ranch and that's where we're going to have our drawing.

James Matthews

I have been teaching guitar all of my playing life. I really needed to do this. Where the ranch is now there were only prickly bushes and poison ivy. It has exceeded our wildest expectations for me and my blues-picking buddies.

Jorma Kaukonen

All the sides are pretty good. We'll just knock the roof off and put a new one on. I have the materials at my ranch.

Tom Fuhrman

These windows have had hundreds of people look through their panes. They have come from churches, ranch and farm houses, Victorian homes, and even a barn or two.

Jeanie Cooper

(Hewitt's) father used to be the caretaker for the guy who owned the bison ranch, ... The businessman was closing it up, and (Hewitt) became upset with him.

Ten Eyck

It's a party for Lakewood Ranch residents. It's a time for people from all of the neighborhoods in the community to come together and have fun.

Susan Hunsicker

We haven't conquered the moon. It's a planet the size of Africa and we've been to six spots the size of a large backyard or farm or ranch. That's not exploring. That's touching.

Jim Garvin

They had a house in Denver and a farm in Aurora. Mom and I had an egg route. When Dad went into law practice, they bought a ranch in Bailey and two in South Park.

Kit Spahn

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Teresa Lasseter

When you lose a ranch, you lose that wildlife.

Cary Lightsey

The Travis Ranch in Ruth, Calif., is less than $1,000 an acre.

Billy Long

The current owners have maintained it in the original form of the old ranch since about 1984.

David Cline

Now, we take RVs and park right on the ranch.

Eric Myers

Cimarron was a great ranch. It was beautiful.

Earl Smith