Farmers Quotes - Page 2

• The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

  Jim Hightower

  Differences, Today, Pigeons

  "Texas farm chief is on the offensive" by Keith Schneider. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

  Bill Monroe

  Voice, Boots, Tenors

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• As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Republican, Welfare

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Low Income, Poverty, Problem

  "Public papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller: fifty-third governor of the State of New York".

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• The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Individual, Crops, Increase

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Agriculture, Farming, Late

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• We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

  Willie Nelson

  Trying, Quitting, Week

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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, Agriculture

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• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Voting, Towers

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• If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Sick, Care

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

  Fred Ward

  School, Pigs, Class

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• Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Men

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• Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Country, Louisiana, Cajuns

  StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

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• It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Hunters, Process

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  Pat Oliphant

  Drawing, Wells, Feels

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20-21, 1997.

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• To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Long, Bills

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• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

  George Sand

  Kings, Noble, Earth

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Opposites, United States, Use

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• Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

  Rick Larsen

  Yield, Important, Quality

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• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  Eamon de Valera

  Opportunity, People, Work Out

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• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Mark Udall

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

  Herman Gorter

  Mean, Land, Pieces

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• My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

  John Dillinger

  People, Fireman, Stealing

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

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Natal

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