Agriculture Quote by James C. Scott

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

— Seamus Heaney

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

— Gustave Flaubert

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

— Cory Michael Smith

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

— Anonymous

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing…

— Theodore Bikel

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

— Lawrence Welk

With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to…

— Sam Donaldson

I wanted to give everything that I lacked in my childhood to young children of my village. I had only talent but no scientific…

— P. T. Usha

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be…

— Nikolai Gogol

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

— Devendra Banhart