- Life
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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.
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- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
- Nov 07, 2020
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I voted with most of my colleagues in the U.S. House to reject a farm bill that would have cut $20 billion from the SNAP program.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020