Farmer Quotes

277 quotes by 219 authors

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
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down… — James Thomas Fields
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway
I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again — Willie Nelson
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. — H. L. Mencken
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. — John F. Kennedy
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. — E. W. Howe
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than… — John F. Kennedy
The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon… — Henry Hamilton Beamish
When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The… — Sarah Silverman
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad.… — Sidney Poitier

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