Farmer Quotes

277 Farmer quotes by 219 unique authors

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your… — Roseanne Barr
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? — Tom Barrett
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we… — Saint Basil
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. — Bjork
In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in… — Lewis Black
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I… — Jerry Brown
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if… — Luke Bryan
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. — Bill Bryson
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em… — Will Carleton
Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met?… — Jimmy Carter
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown… — James Allen
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to… — John Henrik Clarke
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young… — Piers Anthony
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers'… — Malcolm X
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to… — Don Meyer
We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting… — Don Meyer
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you… — John F. Kennedy
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be… — Albert Schweitzer

Who Wrote These Farmer Quotes

219 authors contributed a total of 277 Farmer Quotes, led by these top contributors: