Farmers Quotes - Page 2

• The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

  Jim Hightower

  Differences, Today, Pigeons

  "Texas farm chief is on the offensive" by Keith Schneider. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Republican, Welfare

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

  Bill Monroe

  Voice, Boots, Tenors

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Individual, Crops, Increase

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• We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

  Willie Nelson

  Trying, Quitting, Week

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• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Low Income, Poverty, Problem

  "Public papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller: fifty-third governor of the State of New York".

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Agriculture, Farming, Late

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• Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

  Michael McCaul

  Texas, Hands, Agriculture

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• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Voting, Towers

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Natal

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• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  Pat Oliphant

  Drawing, Wells, Feels

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20-21, 1997.

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• Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

  Jim Ramstad

  Keys, Long, Allies

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• I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Days Off, Growing, Fields

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• Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Men

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• My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

  John Dillinger

  People, Fireman, Stealing

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

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• The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

  James Allen

  Men, Literature, Deeds

  James Allen (2016). “Above Life's Turmoil”, p.40, BookRix

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• Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

  Anjelica Huston

  Stars, Father, People

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• To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Long, Bills

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• There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

  Fred Ward

  School, Pigs, Class

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• Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

  Martin Yan

  Business, Father, Agriculture

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• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  Eamon de Valera

  Opportunity, People, Work Out

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• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Mark Udall

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

  Leonard Boswell

  Teacher, Hard Work, Home

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• Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Country, Louisiana, Cajuns

  StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

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