Farmers Quotes - Page 25

• I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

  Beth Grant

  People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He was the son of a farmer. He had no formal education, very frustrated. He started writing a diary when he was in his teens, and he wrote things like, "When I grow up, I want to be respected. When I grow up, I want to be successful. When I grow up, I want to know things." What I find fascinating about Washington is he wanted to make something of himself.

  Les Wexner

  Growing Up, Writing, Son

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• Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated.

  Jan Cameron

  Animal, Thinking, Justice

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• People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents, compared with drought. To watch your land shrivel and die, year in and year out, to see beautiful fields turn to dust bowls, to watch your animals starve and die. To suffer all this, only to be then washed away in a flood, your home and your family treasures lost and destroyed. And then to pick up the pieces and start again. The farmers of the South are brave!

  Sara Henderson

  Beautiful, Home, Fighting

  Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.321, Pan

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• It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's not something you can legislate. It's that you're giving me the best bread I ever had and I'm so happy to give you money for it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than stand in line and give money for your bread.

  Alice Waters

  Communication, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

  Neil Jordan

  Country, Taken, House

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Science, Pigs, Discovery

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

  Willie Nelson

  Land, Battle, Matter

  "On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm". Book by Willie Nelson, 2007.

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• A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Doe, Process, Grows

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• What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

  Kristi Noem

  Thinking, United States, Done

  "Noem on Bailouts" by Tim Appel, Rapid City Journal, October 13, 2010.

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• Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Agriculture, Community, Movement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

  Manmohan Singh

  Moving, Agriculture, Important

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

  Sam Heughan

  Scotland, Fisherman, Grew Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

  Hannes Holm

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, War, Land

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hero, Pits, Parks

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• If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Mistake, Doe, Fields

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• A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Bigs, Fluctuation

  Source: www.madre.org

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• When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Numbers, House

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Japan, California

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• I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Campaigns, News

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• Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, College, Jewels

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Epic, Sky, Careers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Beautiful, Girl, Frozen

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

  Glenn Beck

  Destiny, Income, Lasts

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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