Best 94 quotes in «farmers quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

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.

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

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.

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

Parity is for farmers.

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

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

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.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

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

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

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

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

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

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.