Farms Quotes - Page 4

• We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Educational, Kids, New Orleans

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• My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

  Queen Latifah

  Horse, House, Peaceful

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  James MacArthur

  Agriculture, Colorado, Skis

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• I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

  Kevin McCloud

  Country, Thinking

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• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  Jon Meacham

  Memories, Hunting, Rivers

  "TEAM OBAMA BEGINS PLANNING $1 BILLION REELECTION CAMPAIGN - Party members may mix across aisle for State of the Union - Au revoir, Chairman Steele -- Taylor and Amy Gross have #3, a girl" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Childhood, One Day

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• I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

  Ariel Sharon

  Beautiful, Horse, Son

  "Sharon: I'll solve the Palestinian problem in four years". Interview with Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2003.

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• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  Gail Simmons

  America, Tennessee, Privilege

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• If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Important, Way

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Trying, Projects

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• I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

  Mark Strong

  Home, Thinking, Assistants

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• If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

  Maurice Strong

  Fishing, Want, Way

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• I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Childhood, Tree

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• In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

  Michael Symon

  Beautiful, Vegetables, Cleveland

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, War, Army

  "A Long Line of Cells: Collected Essays".

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• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

  Gene Tierney

  Home, Agriculture, Medication

  "Self-Portrait".

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• I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  Josh Turner

  Girl, Country, Real

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• So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

  Tina Turner

  Girl, Dream, Pain

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• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Tennessee, Mules

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• We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Kings, Artist, Boys

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Shapes, Way

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, www.usda.gov. July 18, 2012.

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