Farmers Quotes · Page 7

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

— E. W. Howe

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

— Hugh MacLennan

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

— Wendell Berry

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

— Will Rogers

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

— Pliny the Elder

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of…

— Ertharin Cousin

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

— Bill Bryson

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get…

— George Washington Carver

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see…

— Jaggi Vasudev

“The one essential class of workers, as an editorial writer in a New York Daily recently remarked, are the farmers.”

— Joseph Casper Husslein

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing…

— Andy Stanley

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

— Willie Nelson

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

— Kushal Pal Singh

Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to…

— Mohsin Hamid

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he…

— Dick Cavett

I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . .…

— Shel Silverstein

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of…

— Vita Sackville-West

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources…

— Anonymous

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you…

— Tom Colicchio

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in…

— John Henrik Clarke

Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of…

— M. S. Swaminathan

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial…

— Walter Wriston

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the…

— Walter E. Williams

“As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense…

— Michael Donaghy

The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the…

— Amado Nervo

“Take the example of sugarcane farmers between harvests, a group Mr. Mullainathan and Mr. Shafir followed in subsequent research. He may not…

— Anonymous

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

— Laurence J. Peter

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

— Jonathan Swift

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Always value people over things" "Without farmers you'd be naked, hungry, and sober”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

— Ronald Reagan

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

— Jimmy Carter

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

— John Adams