Farms Quotes

• 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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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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• Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

  Joel Salatin

  Assets, Ecstasy, Sheer

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• Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

  Chris Blackwell

  Running, Interesting, Problem

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• I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

  George Washington

  Home, Agriculture, World

  The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania, p. 473, 1925.

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• No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

  George Orwell

  Believe, Animal, Decision

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.20, Hamilton Books

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• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  Aldo Leopold

  Portraits, Landscape, Owners

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.24, Island Press

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's
  about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us.
  It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better
  America.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Wall, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 07, 2014

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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• Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

  Washington Irving

  House, Moss, Cottages

  Washington Irving (1846). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.58

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• Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Believe, Garden, Everyday

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• The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Garden, Law

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Agriculture, Farming, Late

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• I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

  Miguel Indurain

  Dad, Father, Work

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

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• The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Children, Heart, Compassion

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• In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Flower, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2013). “The Poems of Walt Whitman: Patriotic Poems”, p.22, eBookIt.com

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• You can't have the family farm without the family.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Economic, Family Farms

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• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

  George Sand

  Kings, Noble, Earth

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  Edwin Markham

  Hoe, Age, World

  'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)

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• I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Grandma, Garden, Kansas

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

  Steve Zahn

  War, Military, Kentucky

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

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• We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, People, Grandfather

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