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  • As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

  • I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

    Big Sister   Pests   Bigs  
    Beverly Cleary, Louis Darling (1968). “Ramona the Pest”, p.9, Oxford University Press
  • Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

    Book   Mean   Humble  
  • Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

    Pests   Alive   Menace  
  • Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

    God   Stupidity   Leeches  
  • Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

    Lying   Animal   Land  
  • The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

    People   Wish   Important  
    Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers
  • You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

    Hands   Cameras   Pests  
  • Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  • It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

    Flower   Men   Two  
  • It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

    Flower   Cities   People  
    Arthur Guiterman, “Our Suburb”
  • New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

    Add   Pests   Disease  
  • Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

  • I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

    Hate   Pests   I Hate  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

  • Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

    Dark   Loss   Age  
  • The pest of society is egotists.

    Pests   Egotism  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364
  • Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

    Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.213, MIRA
  • I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

    Self   Class   Two  
    "Spock Mugged" by Wilfrid Sheed, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 1973.
  • From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

    Nature   Army   Gdp  
  • One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

    "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.
  • What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

    Men   Balance   Pests  
  • Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

    Men   Hands   Sky  
  • Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.

    Years   Grace   Pay  
    Source: scottlondon.com
  • With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

    Weed   Men   Effort  
    Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC
  • I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.

    Jobs   College   Thinking  
    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of the hole and thrown to the hounds, we have to be very concerned. Where we have hunts where foxes are bred for the sport of it, that is not pest control. That is pure bloody sport.

    Sports   Hunting   Abuse  
  • One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

    Team   Two   People  
    Source: collider.com
  • Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

    Mean   Pests   Socialism  
  • It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.

    "The Pest (1997)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
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