Farmers Quotes
558 quotes by 408 authors
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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
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
— Tom Barrett
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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
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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
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
— Bjork
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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
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
— Bill Bryson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Farmers Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 558 Farmers Quotes, led by these top contributors: