Farmers Quotes · Page 3

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

— Bharati Mukherjee

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

— Eric Schlosser

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

— Mae West

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

— Daniel Webster

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

— Philemon

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" Saskatchewan Farmer Saying.”

— Hertha Tucker

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

— Victor Hugo

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

— Jerry Moran

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures;…

— Eva Longoria

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for…

— Leonard Boswell

“The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe.”

— Harper Fox

“Farmers grow on the land. I suppose farmers grow farmers, rather than using sex to reproduce.”

— Jarod Kintz

“She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help…

— Michael Tinker Pearce

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health…

— Howard Warren Buffett

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard…

— Ray Kinsella

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the…

— Emeril Lagasse

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap…

— Paul Stamets

When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons…

— Eddie Vedder

It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago…

— Werner Herzog

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement…

— Charles Dickens

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He…

— Tim McGraw

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no…

— Hugh Jackman

Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources…

— Dalai Lama

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people…

— Ronald Reagan

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength…

— Lucretius

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is…

— Wes Jackson

A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish…

— Bob Goodlatte

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also…

— Howard Zinn

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and…

— Michael Martin Murphey

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Evannnnnn,” I whine, “we are not farmers. Why are you here so early?”

— S.E. Hall

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

— Bjork

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

— Sharon Jones

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.

— Walter Russell

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

— Eddie Irvine

I don't have farmers I can convert into factory workers.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

— Keira Knightley

If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.

— Abhijit Banerjee