Miller
A miller usually refers to a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a cereal crop to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents in other languages around the world ("Müller" or "Mueller" in German, "Molnár" in Hungarian,"Molinero" in Spanish, "Molinari" in Italian etc.). Milling existed in hunter gatherer communities, and later millers were important to the development of agriculture.
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Famous quotes containing the word miller:
“Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me;
let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.”
—Sy Miller (20th century)
“Now wait a minute, wait a minute. What kind of a deal is this? You can’t go shoving just anybody’s body off on me.”
—Seton I. Miller (1902–1974)