Farmers Quotes

• I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

  Eva Longoria

  Moving, Hunters, Watches

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• We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

  Wendell Berry

  Artist, Order, Kind

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Brother, Father, Pleasant

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Farming, States, Homesteading

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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• There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Agriculture

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• A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

  Norman Parkinson

  Photography, Magazines, Fields

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• It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

  George Sand

  Jealous, Doubt, The End Of The Day

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17

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• Parity is for farmers.

  Seymour Cray

  Parity

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• I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

  Piers Anthony

  May, Today, Chance

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• No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jobs, Hate, Work

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• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  Doc Hastings

  Years, Six, Lifetime

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• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  Hamlin Garland

  Light, Wife, Toil

  1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.

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• Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Corn, Greedy

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• If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

  Tom Barrett

  Rain, Picnics, Crops

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• Never answer a question from a farmer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Answers, Politics, Politician

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• I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

  Miguel Indurain

  Dad, Father, Work

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

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• France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

  Adam Michnik

  Cowboy, Thinking, World

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• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  Walter Scott

  Inspiration, Barns, Actors

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

  Ruth Stout

  Philosophical, Farming, Beats

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Soil, Farms

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• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

  E. B. White

  Men, White, Farming

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press

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• I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

  George Washington

  Country, Real, Animal

  George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters (1847). “Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States”, p.12

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• On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

  Michael McCaul

  Help And Support, Agriculture, America

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