Farmers Quotes - Page 35

• There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Lonely, Cities

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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• With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Devotion, Plant

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• When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.

  Emma Thompson

  Guarantees That, Giving, Support

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• The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Years, Agriculture

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

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• I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humor, Thinking, Should

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• The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.

  Michael Donaghy

  Eye, Vision, Sound

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• We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Artist, Soldier

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• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Native American, Gay

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

  Vita Sackville-West

  Years, Patterns, Farming

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• While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Civilization, People

  "The Des Moines Register" Newspaper, July 8, 1979.

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• The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Two, Luxury, Gardening

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.70, tredition

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• Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Mean, Information

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.189, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Weed, Spring, Fighting

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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