Farms Quotes - Page 13

• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

  Hank Williams III

  Able, Tough, Achieve

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• In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.

  Hank Williams III

  Work Out, Rehabilitation, Want

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• I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Growing Up, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Animal

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

  Kate Pierson

  Girl, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow anything. Hey, how about some celery? Plus, if I tore your legs off, you would look like snowmen.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Ants

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• How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Pigs, Blue, Nebraska

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, Self Confidence

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

  Grant Wood

  Boys, Triumph, Riding

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• My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Summer, Father, Winter

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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• it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

  Christina Stead

  Money, Work, Unlucky

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Disease, Awful

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Issues, Bills, Chef

  "How Food Politics Can Affect Your Election Choices" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2011.

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• I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

  Robert Herjavec

  Grandmother, Dirt, Poor

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• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Spring, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Grandpa, Spy, Trying

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• After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

  Sam Shepard

  Couple, Father, Fall

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• Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.

  Suzanne Somers

  Real, Sea, Bags

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• I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

  William Devane

  Country, House, Guy

  "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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