Farms Quotes - Page 9

• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.

  Shailene Woodley

  Spring, Thinking, Oil

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• When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.

  Josh Duhamel

  Girl, Children, Moving

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• The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Government, Agriculture

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.61, Best Books on

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• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Black And White, Animal

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• We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.

  Mel Carnahan

  Believe, Organization, Agriculture

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• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Live Life, Thinking, Animal

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• There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

  Walter E. Williams

  Office, Giving, Liberty

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• Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

  A. Street

  Ambition, Men, Secret

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• State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Country, Educational, Adoption

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• The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Army, Agriculture

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• Till last by Philip's farm I flow
  To join the brimming river,
  For men may come and men may go,
  But I go on for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

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• There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

  Cesar Chavez

  Memories, Commitment, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.78, Penguin

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• I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.

  Cesar Chavez

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.216, Penguin

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• (Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Country, Ironic, Abundance

  "The Words of César Chávez".

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• I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a quality about them that reminds me of the beatitudes. They are living examples that Jesus' promise is true: they have ben hungry and thirsty for righteousness and they have been satisfied. They are determined, patient people who believe in life and who give strength to others. They have given me more love and hope and strength than they will ever know.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jesus, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Sweat

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• I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Flower, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.261, Penguin

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• If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, Boys, Hats

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silly, Eagles, Turkeys

  Franklin's Letter to His Daughter (excerpt), www.greatseal.com.

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• We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

  Cesar Chavez

  Strong, Betrayal, Tired

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• Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Funny, Pigs, Dumb

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• IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Growth, Devil, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.95, 谷月社

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• He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Cat, Home

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