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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmer Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drought
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are quick to say with their mouth full, 'Well, the American farmer is on the dole.' But a loaf of bread is two bucks when it could be 10 bucks. I know what it is with the government in my business. We would be all for not having government in our business, but we need a fair system.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.
- Nov 07, 2020
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I help a farmer, I don't differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.
- Badger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.
- Nov 07, 2020
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
- Chef
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My siblings and I had to earn our own pocket money so from the age of about 10 I had a job. I did a paper round, helped with the farmer's delivery at the weekend, cut hedges for neighbours and worked on a market stall. Then I'd go and buy a record with my hard-won money.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't accept what a grocery store has for you. Tell the store to get you want you want. If you want honey from a local farmer, organic honey, you tell them. We are in control. It's up to us as the consumer to get what we want.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Redneck' has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
- Sheep
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I'll be a farmer. It's something that I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
- Mentality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
- Harvesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
- Good Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me.
- High Taxes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.
- Fortify
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.
- Farm
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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.
- Couple Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
- Nov 07, 2020
When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.
- Nov 07, 2020