Farmers Quotes - Page 29

• I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Virtue, Found

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• Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Animal, Blood

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198

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• I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Political

  Gov. George W. Bush Addresses Supporters During Whistle-Stop Tour in Salinas, California, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2000.

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• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

  William Devane

  Country, House, Guy

  "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.

  David Schwimmer

  Running, Zoos, Years

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

  Vance Havner

  Trying, Needs, Grades

  Vance Havner (1948). “"That I May Know Him,": A Personal Testimony”

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• A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Modesty, Farming, Dependent

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

  Esther Forbes

  Lying, Liars, Men

  ESTHER FORBES (1954). “Rainbow on the Road”

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• The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

  James Lane Allen

  Book, Virginia, Remembrance

  James Lane Allen (2016). “The reign of law. A tale of the Kentucky hemp fields.”, p.2, Aegitas

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• The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Money, Saving, Way

  Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Two Solitudes”, p.119, New Canadian Library

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• [On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Movie, Gentleman, Flesh

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• We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Artist, Rivers, Psychics

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Attitude, Philosophical

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

  Cornelia Funke

  Thyme, Bishops, Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

  Shawn Achor

  Strong, Jobs, Zimbabwe

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

  Michael Pollan

  Quality, Poor, Wealthy

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• More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

  Bill Maher

  Moon, Inheritance, Astronaut

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• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  J.P. Rangaswami

  Hunters, Information, Becoming

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• You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Party, Men

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• The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.

  Wes Jackson

  Mean, Loss, Land

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• When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.

  Michael Pollan

  Appreciation, Mistake, Ignorance

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

  George Washington Carver

  Mean, Hands, Years

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