Quotes About Farmers Farming

#1. I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Ronald Sukenick

#2. Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Oswald Chambers

#3. Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

T.K. Naliaka

#4. We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#5. As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they've ever known.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#6. I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Bharati Mukherjee

#8. The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion
but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

John F. Kennedy

#10. Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Michael Pollan

#11. I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence.

Peyton Manning

#12. 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

#13. Never underestimate a farmer.

Lance Conrad

#14. There's no money in that," said Will. "Farmers don't make any money. It's the man who buys from him and sells. You'll never make any money farming." Will knew that Cal was feeling him, testing him, observing him, and he approved of that.

John Steinbeck

#15. Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Simon Davies

#16. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

Pooja Ruprell

#18. In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

#19. Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jane Smiley

#21. Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

Wendell Berry

#22. in a short essay I wrote in 1991, Gardening As Agriculture. In that essay I asserted that gardening should be recognized as a serious and important form of agriculture that functions as an incubator for new farmers and farming methods.

Peter Bane

#23. Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook.

Judy Rodgers

#24. During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Sibel Edmonds

#25. Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Ruth Stout

#26. There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to make up some of the lost ground from the resources boom, to just about every area.

Andrew Robb

#27. All good farmers become connoisseurs of dirt and dust.

David Mas Masumoto

#28. The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arthur Capper

#29. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#30. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace that is controlled, top to bottom, by a few firms and that rewards only scale, not innovation, quality, or sustainability.

Wenonah Hauter

#32. [Dagley] had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk, a stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.

George Eliot