Farms Quotes - Page 12

• The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?

  Robert Mugabe

  Animal, Zimbabwe, Events

  "Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'" by Chris Chinaka and Ed Johnson, www.independent.co.uk. December 7, 2003.

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• Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Simple, Doors

  "Song: "Old Black Kettle" ("My Tennessee Mountain Home")". March 26, 1973.

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• People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

  Randall Jarrell

  Animal, People, Gertrude

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Drama, Land, Sky

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

  Aldo Leopold

  House, Over You, Wisconsin

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (1999). “For the health of the land: previously unpublished essays and other writings”, Island Pr

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• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Real, Two

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.115, Island Press

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• I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

  Al Gore

  Night, Wisconsin, Farming

  "Chatter at 40,000 Feet" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. June 15, 2000.

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• I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

  George Crabbe

  Fields, Charm, Flocks

  'The Village' (1783) bk. 1, l. 39

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• I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).

  Edith Durham

  Christian, Believe, Army

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• Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

  Hesiod

  Order, May, Fruit

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• Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Apples, Justice

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• There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Community, Events

  James A. Michener (2014). “Poland: A Novel”, p.26, Dial Press

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• One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Land, Opposites

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.472

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• I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Land, Differences

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• Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

  Shirley Temple

  Garbage Cans, World, Censorship

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, February 23, 2001.

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• If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack, the people that ship, the people that inspect, the people that sell, that sort of thing.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Skills, People

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

  Preston Manning

  Father, School, Listening

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Rivers, Spiders

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lightning, Innocence, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

  Temple Grandin

  Nature, Animal, People

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• The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, House, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Animal, Land, Meat Industry

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• The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Health, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.26, Editora Dracaena

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