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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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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
- Chip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farm jobs are not a bargaining chip.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
- Water
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- Nov 07, 2020
You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020