Farmers Quotes

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

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.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

I am a farmer singing at the plow

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

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

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

Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Parity is for farmers.

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

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

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

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.