Farms Quotes · Page 8

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited…

— Neil Farber

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic…

— Tony D'Souza

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

— Justin Martyr

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going…

— Ian McLeod

You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you…

— A. D. Gordon

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

— Marcus Samuelsson

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

— Jimmy Carter

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that…

— Tom Perrotta

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Joel Salatin

I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely…

— Thomas Jefferson

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they…

— Debi Mazar

When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for…

— Sarah Silverman

“The undulating terrain was cloaked in lush abundance, the vineyards like garlands of deep green and yellow, orchards and farms sprouting here…

— Susan Wiggs

I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin.…

— Al Gore

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect…

— Henry David Thoreau

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a…

— Samuel Johnson

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

— Julia Serano

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

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World…

— Lester R. Brown

In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and…

— Charles Koch

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded…

— Andrew Jackson