Farms Quotes · Page 5

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

— Bob Dylan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

— Bill Vaughan

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

— Alice Waters

I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.

— Travis Hafner

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

— Will Rogers

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

— Alice Cooper

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

— Laozi

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of…

— Ron Chernow

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

— Ambrose Bierce

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's…

— Arsenio Hall

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

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today…

— Stephen Kinzer

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday…

— David O. Russell

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans…

— Richard Lamm

My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing…

— Sanjay Rawal

Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable…

— Peter Singer

If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no…

— Ann Coulter

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy…

— Odette Annable

I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what-…

— Jason Mraz

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in…

— Vinnie Jones

Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical…

— Mark Bittman

It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up…

— Peter Singer

Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals…

— Sharon Gannon

I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

— Michael Pollan

There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated…

— Wayne Pacelle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

— Aristotle

There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow…

— Eric Schlosser

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio,…

— James Herriot

It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living…

— Kató Lomb

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...

— Ned Sublette

Donald Trump is going to work on infrastructure, building the wall. He's going to farm leaders.

— Kellyanne Conway

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

— Guy Martin

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

— Phyllis Bottome

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

— Jim Rohn

“I like horse farms. I like the idea of animals growing on trees.”

— Jarod Kintz

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

— Ted Kooser