Farmer Quotes

#1. 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.

Faye Dunaway

#2. If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

Terry Pratchett

#3. 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

#4. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Richard Paul Evans

#5. I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Lawrence Welk

#6. As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.

Henry Selick

#7. A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work,

Julius Evola

#8. BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

Narendra Modi

#9. The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Meister Eckhart

#10. And from time to time you find your "county road" takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a pasture and stops, or else it takes you into some farmer's backyard.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. 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.

Pat Oliphant

#12. Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.

Margaret Brownley

#13. It's been...interesting."
"Aw." He actually rolled his eyes. "Interesting? That's the review I get? I'm pretty sure the earth moved."
"Well..." My cheeks heated. "You're the farmer. It's your job to notice the earth.

Sarina Bowen

#14. I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jerry Moran

#15. In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#16. 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.

James Thomas Fields

#17. George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Will Rogers

#18. When the farmer gets his seed into the ground, he does not dig it up every day to see how it is doing, but says, "I am glad that is settled." He believes the seed has begun its work. Why not have this same faith in the "imperishable seed" - Christ's Words, which He says are "spirit and life.

F. F. Bosworth

#19. 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.

F. Sionil Jose

#20. Farmer will tell you that fertile land is much more important than better seeds.)

Seth Godin

#21. There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#22. He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.

Ruth Rendell

#23. The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Hugh MacLennan

#24. The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

Carla Hall

#25. North Korea was (and remains as of this writing in 2009) the last place on earth where virtually everything is grown on collective farms. The state confiscates the entire harvest and then gives a portion back to the farmer.

Barbara Demick

#26. 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

#27. Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

Ronald Reagan

#28. The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

Chuck Wendig

#29. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Wendell Berry

#30. We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.

Don Meyer

#31. It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are designed for larger corporations. And that's going to be the challenge in this country; it goes beyond food.

Robert Kenner

#32. Farmer barn dances, although the

Lois McMaster Bujold

#33. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Tracy Kidder

#34. As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

William Howard Taft

#35. Man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#36. Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.

Harry M. Caudill

#37. I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Hugh Jackman

#38. 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.

Will Carleton

#39. 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.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#40. I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Samuel Parris

#41. I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.

Will Wiles

#42. A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

Philemon

#43. I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Matthew Rhys

#44. We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

Simon Armitage

#45. So you fixing to turn farmer on me?" "I'm fixing to do what it takes to win her. And now I come to think on it, right before we met Tamsen, that day in Morganton, weren't you the one talking about planting more corn, getting that cow? Sounded to me like you were the one thinking on turning farmer.

Lori Benton

#46. When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#47. I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

John Adams

#48. The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#49. Never underestimate a farmer.

Lance Conrad

#50. You sure about this, Sugar Snap?" ...
"I'm all in, Farmer Boy.

Alice Clayton

#51. Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

Charles Studd

#52. One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Carla Bley

#53. I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

Roseanne Barr

#54. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#55. Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

Strive Masiyiwa

#56. No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

H.L. Mencken

#57. 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.

Piers Anthony

#58. I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

John Marston

#59. Home. This magnificent palace had been her home since she was eleven. She'd came to it as a farmer's daughter, and now she'd leave it as a soldier.

Elise Kova

#60. Gotta have a rusted out red farm truck to prove you're a farmer in Sonoma, or a sheep-milk dairy man. - Jake Knight in GUT-CHECK GREEN.

Peter Prasad

#61. But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Sam Donaldson

#62. How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Jane Smiley

#63. Mr. False! No, don't start grabbing the chickens! Better off farmer with no chickens than a load of chickens with no farmer! Anyway, they'll probably float, or fly, or something!

Terry Pratchett

#64. Funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

Rita Mae Brown

#65. As noted in 1964 by Robert P. "Bob" Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): "It's not contradictory for a farmer to say he's nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder's head off.

Charles E. Cobb

#66. When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Will Rogers

#67. It's important you look and act like a farmer

Anders Breivik

#68. ...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.

David Willis McCullough

#69. My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.

Jose Andres

#70. Sure as eggs is eggs," he said. "As the turkey-farmer said when he hatched his first turtle.

Neil Gaiman

#71. What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.

Dana Gould

#72. It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

Will Rogers

#73. Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

H.L. Mencken

#74. Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Che Guevara

#75. A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

#76. The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Andrew Jackson

#77. 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.

George Akerlof

#78. We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#79. But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru

Ian Doescher

#80. I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

Bill McLaren

#81. I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

Zack Wheat

#82. Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally surrounded Port Hueneme, where there was a small U.S. Navy base.

Michael Connelly

#83. Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

Oliver Sacks

#84. If I wanted to work hard, I'd be a farmer.

Sterling Archer

#85. I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.

Bruce Braley

#86. A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer.

John Steinbeck

#87. Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

William Blake

#88. What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.

Su Shi

#89. There would be a crafts tent and a small local farmers' market for anyone who wanted to buy a small local farmer.

Jodi Taylor

#90. 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.

Tyler Cowen

#91. Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#92. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Abraham Lincoln

#93. When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#94. A farmer slaughters his cattle because he must eat to survive, but he also protects the herd from thieves and predators. If you leave the pen, the wolves will find you, child.

Rachel Vincent

#95. When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.

Alicia Witt

#96. A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Norman Parkinson

#97. We would do much better as leaders in the Church to learn at the feet of the farmer rather than study with the CEO of a corporation.

Neil Cole

#98. Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Will Rogers

#99. The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.

M.C. Mary Kom

#100. It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

Rajneesh