Farmer Quotes

277 Farmer quotes by 219 unique authors

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
The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff.… — Gerry Harvey
Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will… — Grover Norquist
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. — Unknown Author
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is;… — Meister Eckhart
It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really… — Drew Bledsoe
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. — David Antin
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
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Who Wrote These Farmer Quotes

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