Farms Quotes - Page 26

• Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

  Earl Warren

  Cities, People, Tree

  Earl Warren (1977). “The memoirs of Earl Warren”

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• All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

  Paul Engle

  Nuts, Cake, Black

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

  Tim Daly

  Ideas, Mowing, Digging

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

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• America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Children, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

  A. D. Gordon

  Flower, Land, Roots

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

  Mark Twain

  Rhode Island, Islands, Aristocracy

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.418, Univ of California Press

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• I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Boss, Ants

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• Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

  Dan Quayle

  Senior, Taken, Keys

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• As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mean, Mushrooms, San Francisco

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• Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Self, Giving

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

  Stewart Brand

  California, Southern, Desert

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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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• I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

  Dustin Clare

  Honest, Building, Farmers

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Swimming, Filth, Salmon

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• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  Jack Williamson

  Kids, Imagination, Young

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• I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Law, Knowing, Harvest

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• I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

  Alexis Denisof

  Summer, School, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  Sam Donaldson

  Ambition, Kids, Want

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• My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Mother, California, Migrants

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• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  Heather O'Neill

  Halloween, Kids, Hard Times

  Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

  Stella Gibbons

  Animal, Wind, Voice

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Hunting, Climbing, Fishing

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Answers, Care

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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