Farmers Quotes

558 quotes by 408 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
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for… — Wendell Berry
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
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small… — Norman Borlaug
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my… — Anthony Bourdain
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
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — 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
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann

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