Farms Quotes - Page 14

• A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Baby, Littles, Farming

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• My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

  Willard Scott

  Mother, People, Cooking

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, College, Years

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• To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Agriculture, America

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.

  Murray Rothbard

  Years, Good Times, Logic

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

  Billy Graham

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

  Rick Perry

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Way

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  Josh Turner

  Girl, Country, Real

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• So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

  Tina Turner

  Girl, Dream, Pain

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• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Tennessee, Mules

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• We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Kings, Artist, Boys

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Shapes, Way

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, www.usda.gov. July 18, 2012.

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• The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

  Tom Vilsack

  Fighting, Administration, Immigration

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• My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Brother, Home

  "My family values" by Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

  E. B. White

  Men, White, Farming

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press

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• The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

  David Wilkerson

  Men, House, Challenges

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Book, Reading

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• I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

  Vinnie Jones

  Children, Home, Holiday

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• Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  A. E. Housman

  Country, Blow, Air

  A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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• For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sports, Children, School

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• It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Kings, Growing Up, Dark

  Charles M. Schulz (1971). “Snoopy and "It was a dark and stormy night"”, Henry Holt & Co

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• I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

  Gene Tierney

  Home, Agriculture, Medication

  "Self-Portrait".

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