Farmer Quotes

277 Farmer quotes by 219 unique authors

Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we… — Masanobu Fukuoka
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka
You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at… — Joel Salatin
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew… — Andrew Jackson
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different… — Bret Lott
The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who… — Harry Golden
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all… — Matthew Scully
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two… — Unknown Author
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by… — Henry David Thoreau
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought… — Martin Yan
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone… — Rita Mae Brown
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist,… — Jesse Jackson
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I… — Arturo Toscanini
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. — Thomas Jefferson
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… — Charles Horton Cooley
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is… — G. Edward Griffin
War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why. — Randall Wallace
The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as… — Mark Krikorian
Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for… — Ron Paul
In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard.… — J. Vernon McGee
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses… — Andy Stanley
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was… — Laurie Lee

Who Wrote These Farmer Quotes

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