Farmers Quotes - Page 5

• Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Time, Worry, Growing

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• Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

  Dick Armey

  Hurt, Rural Areas, Pay

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• One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Agriculture, Quality

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• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  Faye Dunaway

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

  Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

  Daryl Hannah

  Ideas, Support, Energy

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• Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Children, Hands, Wife

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.61, Wakefield Press

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• What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

  Joseph Hume

  House, Reason, Should

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agriculture, Long, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

  George Crabbe

  Complaining, Gains, Farming

  'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273

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• A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

  Julius Evola

  Kings, Men, Land

  Julius Evola (1991). “Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex”, p.34, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Littles, Soil

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• How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

  Jane Smiley

  Favors, Farming, Knows

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.45, Anchor

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Gun, Subsidies

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• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  Ike Skelton

  Land, Connections, Facts

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• The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Fruit

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

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• When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Essentials, Figures

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

  Willie Nelson

  Fighting, Long

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Crazy, Italian, Vegetables

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• The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Optimist, Stills

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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