Culture Quotes - Page 68

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

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

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

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.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

Eating is an agricultural act.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.