Agriculture Quotes - Page 2

• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Art, Psychology, Chemistry

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• Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

  Alfred Nobel

  Second Chance, Age, Humbug

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• By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

  John Salazar

  Energy, Use, Fuel

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, India, Population

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• The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

  Will Rogers

  Optimist, Farmers, Stills

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Football, Doe

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

  Pierre Laval

  Want, Matter, France

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

  Thomas Tusser

  Debt, Prison, Good Husband

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.114

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• Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Nice, Would Be, Selling

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• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  Douglas Wilson

  Character, Opposites, Midwest

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• I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

  Roger Taylor

  Kids, Reality, Years

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• We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

  John Entwistle

  Rottweilers, Nine, Hungry

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• Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

  Thomas Tusser

  Gold, Good Husband, Ill

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.200

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• He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sky, Soil

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• It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

  Jim Hightower

  Believe, Recovery, New Orleans

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• Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Home, Men

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• Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

  Sean William Scott

  Military, Waiting, Want

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• Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

  Will Rogers

  Worry, Fit, Lows

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• Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Calling, Earth

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• Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Years

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

  Will Rogers

  People, President, Mortgage

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• Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

  Will Rogers

  Steak, Plates

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”

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• I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

  Will Rogers

  Clubs, Association, Pitchforks

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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