- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farm Quotes
Life rooted in the farm, then and now.
These quotes trace farm life from childhood memories of raising animals in the country to the labor that keeps American Farming running, much of it done by workers few others are willing to take on. One even borrows the term to describe a training ground for a whole industry.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
- Drought
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now see as the forms within forms in my crocheted wire sculptures.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave it special protection, because I had an external partner through the export processing zone.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.
- First Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.
- Grandmother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020