Farms Quotes - Page 15

• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

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

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• When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

  Norman Rockwell

  New York, Eye, Artist

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• I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

  Roy Rogers

  Ohio, Agriculture, Littles

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• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

  Ariel Sharon

  Flower, Political, Born

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Childhood, One Day

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• I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

  Ariel Sharon

  Beautiful, Horse, Son

  "Sharon: I'll solve the Palestinian problem in four years". Interview with Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2003.

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• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  Gail Simmons

  America, Tennessee, Privilege

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• If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Important, Way

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Trying, Projects

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• I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

  Mark Strong

  Home, Thinking, Assistants

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• If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

  Maurice Strong

  Fishing, Want, Way

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• I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Childhood, Tree

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• In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

  Michael Symon

  Beautiful, Vegetables, Cleveland

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, War, Army

  "A Long Line of Cells: Collected Essays".

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• i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

  e. e. cummings

  Uncles, Buttons, Coffins

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

  Isak Dinesen

  Feet, Hills

  Out of Africa pt. 1, "The Ngong Farm" (1937)

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• The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home. No matter how high Garion rose in life, he never forgot that all his memories began in that kitchen.

  David Eddings

  Memories, Home, Boys

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• However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Voiceless, Tests, Matter

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• Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Sheep, Three, Ponds

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• We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

  Ned Vizzini

  Real, School, Animal

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• He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Opportunity, Knights

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.92, Random House

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• Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

  Joel Salatin

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, School, Boys

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