Farms Quotes - Page 7

• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Brother, Father, Agriculture

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• I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

  Pierre Laval

  Agriculture, Want, Matter

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

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• We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

  John Entwistle

  Agriculture, Rottweilers, Nine

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• We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Artist, Agriculture

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• I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

  Larry Holmes

  Agriculture, Dirt, Rich

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• I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

  Bernard Hinault

  Agriculture, Directors, France

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• But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

  Michael Shanks

  Agriculture, Possibility, Walks

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

  Davy Jones

  Horse, Agriculture, England

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• Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Curiosity, Madness

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• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

  Pat Summitt

  Fighting, Alzheimer's, Competition

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• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Tuna

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• [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

  Stewart Brand

  Motivation, Inspiration, Squares

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• Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Motivation, Inspiration, America

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Oklahoma, Cities

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Grace, Making Love

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.52, Seven Stories Press

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• I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fall, Sunset, Autumn

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Remember, Profit

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• With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

  Doc Hastings

  Children, House, Support

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• I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.

  Jesse H. Jones

  Real, Land, Cities

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• When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

  Ron Chernow

  America, People, Wicked

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, College, Wind

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• I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

  Joni Ernst

  Cutting, Yale, Iowa

  "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in Kentucky? They are producing a lethal substance far more dangerous than cocaine. More Colombians die from tobacco-related illnesses than Americans die from cocaine. Of course, Colombia has no right to do that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kentucky, Political, Drug

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.738, AK Press

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