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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
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
- Dairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020