Best 94 quotes in «farmers quotes» category

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" Saskatchewan Farmer Saying.

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who I am. My heart belongs in the country. I’m a farmer, and I was shaped in the fields.

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

I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a lonely cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like the Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls, and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil.

I seek him in the landscape of home, in the breeze brushing over rows of crops. I seek him in the seasons of planting and harvesting. A rugged man of the earth, he breathed life into this farm.

I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with the time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil.

Never underestimate a farmer.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory

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

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

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 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.

Be a gentleman 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

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

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

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'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.

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

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.