Best 94 quotes in «farmers quotes» category

Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees, boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root, and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.

Love cultivates hope; hope fertilizes resilience, and we can all be farmers of dreams

Never underestimate a farmer.

No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp.

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

Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory

Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands.

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 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.

The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there’s always the farm and the cows...

The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe.

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

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

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?

Be a gentleman farmer.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

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

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.