My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“dinner. I would climb over the farmer’s fence and toss back to my father samples of the crop I was harvesting. It… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
[Having perosonal trainer for the movie 'The back-up plan'] I felt like I had just given birth. He was like, "You can't… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home. — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get… — Prince Copy Share Image
I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet,… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go." — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer;… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image