Agriculture Quotes · Page 20

Agriculture is in my heart.

— Sonny Perdue

You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the…

— Steve Case

During the 1990s, I served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the nation's 25th secretary of agriculture.

— Mike Espy

Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir.

— M. S. Swaminathan

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of…

— Marcus Aurelius

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor…

— Moby

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially…

— Bill Vaughan

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in…

— Anonymous

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

— Leonid Brezhnev

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

— Vandana Shiva

When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous…

— Elias Hasket Derby

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate…

— Philemon

The industrial revolution in England was only made possible through intensified agriculture and the use of coal for manufacturing, which delivered far…

— Michael Shellenberger

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

— Tony Blair

I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.

— Ryan Zinke

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a…

— Tom Vilsack

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

— Narendra Modi

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do…

— Pamela Ronald

Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.

— Zazie Beetz

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God…

— Don Young

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

— Will Rogers

From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats]…

— Charles Rangel

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

— Donald Hamilton