Farms Quotes · Page 3

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

— Jim Bouton

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

— Emeril Lagasse

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

— Doja Cat

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

— Tom Allen

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

— Tulsi Tanti

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

— Joel Salatin

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

— George Carlin

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to…

— Hank Williams III

Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I…

— Eliot Coleman

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well…

— Marcus Buckingham

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted…

— Laurie Lee

It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

— Mark Waid

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I…

— David Ricardo

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable…

— Randall Jarrell

Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One…

— Ruth Harrison

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward…

— Sam Shepard

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,…

— Ben Elliot

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year…

— Murray Rothbard

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an…

— Eric Hobsbawm

My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't…

— Tom Johnson

I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the…

— Haskell Wexler

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's…

— Michael Pollan

Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been…

— Wayne Pacelle

We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get…

— Melinda Gates

If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our…

— Jerry Vlasak

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The…

— George Washington

I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, even…

— Martha Stewart

We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded…

— Justin Martyr

When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the…

— Cato the Elder

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

— Greg Peterson

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

— Jane Hamilton

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

— Jo Walton

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

— George Crabbe

We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet! -Sean Parker

— The Social Network

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

— Noel Edmonds

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

— Ann Richards

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

— Reginald Innes Pocock