At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a… — Clifford Sifton Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I think much of my inspiration comes from nature. I feel alive when I take a long hike with my dog or… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin… — Joan Dye Gussow Copy Share Image
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the… — Charles Kellogg Copy Share Image
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time… — Lael Brainard Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
