Farmers Quotes · Page 4

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

— Hugh MacLennan

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

— Jerry Moran

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

— Michael Pollan

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

— E. W. Howe

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

— Andrew Mellon

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

— Robert Burns

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

— Nelson Rockefeller

“Such good round pigs,” said the farmer, “we must buy them.”

— Arnold Lobel

Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood's…

— Shawn Amos

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role…

— Eric Schlosser

Elijah Cummings and his colleagues in the House are hung up on giving more money to Puerto Rico when we have our…

— Brian Kemp

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a…

— Charles de Lint

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

— Edward Abbey

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

— George Washington

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

— Thomas Jefferson

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

— Tom Vilsack

You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes…

— Michael J. Sullivan

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on…

— Andy Goldsworthy

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell…

— Herman Gorter

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That…

— James Thomas Fields

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else.…

— Ike Skelton

As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when…

— Andrew Weil

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible…

— Jeffrey Rosen

India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture…

— Raj Patel

Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing…

— Willie Nelson

I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external…

— Shawn Achor

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the…

— Henry George

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the…

— Greg Peterson

There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has…

— Pope Gregory I

China is soon to be probably the most powerful nation in the world, but they only making like $10,000 a year, and…

— Lupe Fiasco

“They" are farmers and ranchers, though generally not those from the front row of the church, that select few who remain in…

— Lisa M. Hamilton

I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

— Shawn Amos

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

— Eric Ripert

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

— Eugene Fitch Ware

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

— Roger Avary

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

— Ronald Reagan

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

— John Shimkus

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

— Sheri L. Dew

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

— Chris Murphy