Farmers Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  School, Two, Agriculture

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• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Engineering, Gmos, Issues

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

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Farming, Masters

  "Natural History".

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• Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.149, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

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• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's
  about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us.
  It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better
  America.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Wall, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 07, 2014

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• Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.

  Eric Sloane

  Philosophy, Yesterday, Curiosity

  Eric Sloane (2004). “Our Vanishing Landscape”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, One Day, Necks

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• Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Two, Numbers

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• 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, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Farming

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Roosters, Hens

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• My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Fathers Day, Mother, Grateful

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• Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

  Michael McCaul

  Agriculture, Fire, Subsidies

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• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Brother, Father, Agriculture

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• In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

  Tim Holden

  Protection, Chapters, Made

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• I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

  Bjork

  Tradition, My Family, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  Edwin Markham

  Hoe, Age, World

  'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)

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• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Selfishness, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  Ike Skelton

  Animal, Waste, Action

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Interesting, Farming, Poor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books

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• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world

  Ike Skelton

  Country, World, Regulation

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• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Charles Sturt

  Successful, Causes, Flourishing

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