Farmers Quotes - Page 34

• Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

  Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

  Inspirational, Daughter, Serendipity

  "What Does That Mean? : Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries". Book by Eldon Taylor (p. 9), 2010.

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• The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

  Jim Rogers

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Graphic Arts Books

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• The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, May, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2877, e-artnow

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• But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

  Michael Foley

  Desire, Cocktails, Males

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

  Kelly Link

  Kings, War, Soldier

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system.

  Suzanne Whang

  Important, Environment, Eating

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• Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fighting, Hunting, Government

  "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.

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• There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Reap, Conception

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• But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Country, Greatest Victory, Germany

  "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

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• Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.

  Alice Waters

  People, Common Sense, Support

  Alice Waters (2010). “In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart”, p.10, Clarkson Potter

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• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  Ken Robinson

  Development, Outcomes, Humans

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

  Andrew Weil

  Marijuana, Oil, Healthy

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• The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Sorcery, Wands

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 11 March to 27 November 1813”

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• Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

  Michael Pollan

  Pests, Disease, Way

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Horse, Responsibility

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• Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Desire, World, Stuff

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Firsts, Administration, Eating

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• Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Impact, Engineering, Hazards

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• The American people have no idea they are paying the bill.  They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices.  They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Selfish, Thinking, Ideas

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• This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Humor, Voice

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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• I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

  Eric Ripert

  Sides, My Family, Both Sides

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Land, Agriculture, Actors

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