American Farmer Quotes

#1. The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration - an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

Mark Krikorian

#2. The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Jim Hightower

#3. Come on ... come closer."
I stood my ground. "I didn't get you up here to indulge in wild monkey lust."
"Crap." He dropped his hand to his lap.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.

Bradley Whitford

#5. I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#6. I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt

Jesse Jackson

#8. If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Paul Farmer

#9. I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

Bat For Lashes

#10. What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.

Paul Farmer

#11. Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

William Lyon Phelps

#12. I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Paul Farmer

#13. Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#14. The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.

Lydia Hoyt Farmer

#15. 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.

Mick Mulvaney

#16. When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#17. I have a Maltipoo named Blondie. She is so cute!

Ashley Tisdale

#18. I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Daphne Guinness

#19. A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.

Bocafloja

#20. Never forget to see the beauty, even in ugliness.

Debasish Mridha

#21. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

John Gould