Farmers Quotes - Page 5

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

  E. W. Howe

  Time, Worry, Growing

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• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  Faye Dunaway

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

  Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

  Daryl Hannah

  Ideas, Support, Energy

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

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Two, Numbers

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• Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

  Dick Armey

  Hurt, Rural Areas, Pay

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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 round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

  George Crabbe

  Complaining, Gains, Farming

  'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273

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• A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

  Julius Evola

  Kings, Men, Land

  Julius Evola (1991). “Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex”, p.34, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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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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• How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

  Jane Smiley

  Favors, Farming, Knows

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.45, Anchor

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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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• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Gun, Subsidies

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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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• 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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• When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Essentials, Figures

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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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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• 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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• Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Crazy, Italian, Vegetables

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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 glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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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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• 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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