Agriculture Quotes - Page 4

• The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Taken, Equality

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

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• Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Golden, Covered, Seeds

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.345

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• The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Land, Ideas

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• After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, World, Firsts

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• I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

  Sue Kelly

  Unique, Size, Economy

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• Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

  Ralph Merkle

  Acres, Limits, Produce

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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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

  Fire, Subsidies, Today

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• I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

  Larry Holmes

  Dirt, Rich, Filthy

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• I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

  Davy Jones

  Horse, England, Farms

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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

  Colorado, Skis, Partners

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• In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

  Kate Millett

  People, Wanted, Treated

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• Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

  Charles Sturt

  England, Farming, Sydney

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.70

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• The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Machines, Fuel, Pesticides

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• Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

  Michael McCaul

  Texas, Hands, America

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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, House, Genius

  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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• But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

  Michael Shanks

  Possibility, Walks, Preparing

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Literature, Cows

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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• Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

  Dwayne Andreas

  Hell, Program, Farms

  "Dwayne’s World"by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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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, Professors

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• I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

  Roy Rogers

  Ohio, Littles, Miles

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Community

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• We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Artist, Countryside

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• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  Salma Hayek

  Fun, Chickens, Farms

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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• A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

  Ovid

  Fields, Exhausted, Constant

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