Best 94 quotes in «farmers quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Parity is for farmers.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

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

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.

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

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.