Farms Quotes - Page 18

• I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Albums, Fabric

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• I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Boys, College

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• Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Spring, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Ideas, Want, Secluded

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Agriculture, Kentucky, Who We Are

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• Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

  Michael Caine

  Insane, Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums

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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Kids, House, Tree

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Kent Conrad

  Support, Leader, World

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• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reality, House, Parent

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• I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nice, Animal, Thinking

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  James MacArthur

  Agriculture, Colorado, Skis

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• I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

  Kevin McCloud

  Country, Thinking

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• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  Jon Meacham

  Memories, Hunting, Rivers

  "TEAM OBAMA BEGINS PLANNING $1 BILLION REELECTION CAMPAIGN - Party members may mix across aisle for State of the Union - Au revoir, Chairman Steele -- Taylor and Amy Gross have #3, a girl" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Meat

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Numbers, America

  "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on ‘Humane’ Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Two, Three

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sexy, Passion, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2005). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Party, Law, Political

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Brother, Children

  "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Animal

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Woods, Fields

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