Farms Quotes - Page 22

• One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Land, Opposites

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.472

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• I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Land, Differences

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• Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

  Shirley Temple

  Garbage Cans, World, Censorship

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, February 23, 2001.

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• If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack, the people that ship, the people that inspect, the people that sell, that sort of thing.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Skills, People

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

  Preston Manning

  Father, School, Listening

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

  Kristi Noem

  Thinking, United States, Done

  "Noem on Bailouts" by Tim Appel, Rapid City Journal, October 13, 2010.

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• I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.

  Ian Wilmut

  School, Weekend, Thinking

  Interview at the Academy of Acheivement, May 23, 1998.

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• I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Morning, Book

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Out of Africa”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

  Jo Walton

  Wild Places

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

  Ilana Mercer

  Wind Farms, Sound, Backyards

  "In Defense Of The Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

  Laurie Lee

  Strong, Horse, Feet

  1959 Cider With Rosie,'The Uncles'.

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• I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.

  Rod Coronado

  Regret, Animal, College

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• Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Years, Apples

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

  Flora Thompson

  War, Intelligent, Past

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?

  Roman Vishniac

  Two, Dozen, Littles

  "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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• To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

  Henry Ford

  Ambition, Blood, Steel

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.18, 谷月社

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• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

  Thomas Schelling

  Kyoto Protocol, Giving, House

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• Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

  Roger Fouts

  Mother, Growing Up, Sacrifice

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

  RuPaul

  Animal, Firsts, Revolution

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Rivers, Spiders

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lightning, Innocence, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

  Temple Grandin

  Nature, Animal, People

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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