Farms Quotes
137 quotes by 122 authors
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I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down…
— Doc Hastings
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that…
— Ron Chernow
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A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth…
— Marsilio Ficino
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
— Anne Stevenson
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Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in…
— Noam Chomsky
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I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue…
— Sue Kelly
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A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil…
— Walt Whitman
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Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be…
— Eliot Coleman
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I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I…
— Vincent Gallo
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Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building…
— Van Jones
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Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts…
— Gene Logsdon
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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax…
— Warren Buffett
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...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?
— Winston Churchill
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
— Matthew Scully
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Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
— Earl Warren
Who Wrote These Farms Quotes
122 authors contributed a total of 137 Farms Quotes, led by these top contributors: