Agriculture Quote by Cato the Elder

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

— Henri Alain Liogier

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

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

— Pliny the Elder

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

— Bernhard Schlink

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

— Thomas Jefferson

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

— Ruth Stout

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— 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…

— Henry David Thoreau

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And…

— Ian Wilmut

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or…

— Dolores Huerta