- Family
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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
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
- Commuting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to the farm generally every other week, but I'm on the phone with them every day, and I watch every race on TV. Not a day goes by when I'm not working on that.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fans of the hit HGTV show 'Fixer Upper' are well aware that its stars, Chip and Joanna Gaines, live on a farm in Waco, Texas. Nearly every episode features some kind of montage of their four kids romping outside with various kinds of farm animals, from pigs to horses to goats.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
- Nov 07, 2020
I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.
- Glaring
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- Nov 07, 2020