Best 94 quotes in «farmers quotes» category

While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

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

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.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

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

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

Be a gentleman farmer.

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

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

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

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

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

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

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

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

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

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

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

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

I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

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

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

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

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

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

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

Parity is for farmers.

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging. So when consumers hear about a recent effort like the "food dialogues" put on by a group called the US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, do they know necessarily that these "dialogues" are being funded by companies like Monsanto, a large chemical company and the controller of most of the patents on genetically modified seeds? No, they don't.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

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

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.