Farmers Quotes - Page 6

• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

  Norman Borlaug

  War, Team, Humble

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• A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

  Philemon

  Years, Next Year, Rich

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• Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Land, Ems

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• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  Mark Udall

  Business, Rights, Law

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• A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

  Edward Abbey

  Land, Four, Herds

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

  Dorothy Stang

  Land, Battle, Want

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• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  John Shimkus

  Country, Illinois, Keys

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• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Use

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Music Is

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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• My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Sweet, Guy

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Calling, Weavers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.

  Rod Stewart

  Daughter, Gun, Boys

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• When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”

  Gene Veith

  Men, Giving, Bread

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• We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Incentives, Needs

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• Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Believe, Hardship

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• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  Carice van Houten

  Play, Acting, Too Much

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fighting, Reality, Ordinary

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty, especially farmers, working-class people, and the very poor.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Class, People, Suffering

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• My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

  Sam Brownback

  Dad, My Dad, Wanted

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• As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

  Evan Thomas

  Hard Work, Hard

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• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Redneck, Wheat Fields

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• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Care

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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