Farmers Quotes

• 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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• A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

  Philemon

  Years, Next Year, Rich

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• Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Optimist, 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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• 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

  Men, Retail, Pay

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

  Willie Nelson

  Fighting, Long

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• There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Littles, Soil

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  Ike Skelton

  Land, Connections, Facts

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• Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer.

  Nick Offerman

  Hands, Love One Another

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• The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Fruit

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

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• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

  Norman Borlaug

  War, Team, Humble

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• Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Time, Worry, Growing

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Land, Ems

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• I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

  Dorothy Stang

  Land, Battle, Want

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• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  Mark Udall

  Business, Rights, Law

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• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Use

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• My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Sweet, Guy

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• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  John Shimkus

  Country, Illinois, Keys

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Music Is

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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