In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
Quotes about lumber (16 Quotes)
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
What is most frustrating about U. S. protectionism is that it protects no one, ... Rather than encouraging engagement, it allows an inefficient U. S. lumber industry to turn its back on a rapidly changing global marketplace. Protectionism removes the impetus for industry to invest, improve, adapt and be globally competitive.
If you had to win a game, it's a toss-up between Steve Young, John Elway and Dan Marino, ... Steve had that one unique quality of scrambling away from pressure, John would lumber for the first down and Dan had an unbelievable arm. It was never over when Steve was on the field he had the unique ability to do things that were almost impossible. He could lift the entire team with his ability alone.
Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least 4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth O God O Montreal.
Until Canada ends its unfair practices, the U. S. lumber industry will never stop insisting that action be taken under U. S. trade laws to fully offset the subsidies and dumping.
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard .... You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.
He wanted to continue the work he was able to begin under a Liberal government. And he felt the best way for him to serve his constituents and get results and to focus on a file that is of huge importance to Canada -- namely softwood lumber -- that by being the Trade Minister he might just be able to make that breakthrough that will undoubtedly bring huge benefits back to Canada.
We'll raise it with Secretary Rice, asking her to understand our situation, ... I do believe on this one the administration needs to stop taking assistance from the powerful lumber lobby.
More because Mr. (Joe) Hardy, CEO of 84 Lumber, is going above and beyond. A hospital in a major metropolitan area has top doctors.
Every U. S. administration since President Reagan has consistently found that the Canadian lumber industry has benefited from enormous subsidies. We will not stand for this absurd and unjust result from panelists acting outside our constitutional system of accountability.
That's baseball. The two 'L's, leather and lumber, you've got to do them both, and today all nine of us did, ... You can win a ballgame so many different ways.
They have been devastated for quite a while, so if you see bargain hunters stepping in here, it's a little bit positive. The sentiment on the street is still negative (toward lumber issues), but the aggressive accounts will probably nibble here a little bit.