Farmer Quotes

• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Pretty
  • Farmer

• After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Years
  • Farmer
  • Wanting

• A farmer is separated from a farmerBy what farmers have in common: forests,Those dark things - what the fields were to begin with.At night a fox comes out of the forest, eats his chickens.At night the deer come out of the forest, eat his crops.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Forest

• I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • City
  • Farmer
  • Hippie

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Gold
  • Treasure
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Dustin Clare
  • Farmer

• The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  

  Charles Stuart Calverley
  • Hair
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Complaining
  • Farmer

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

  

  David Ricardo
  • Farmer

• I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • Garden
  • Farmer

• My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • God
  • Father
  • Purpose

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

  

  Bill Monroe
  • High
  • Farmer

• I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Life
  • Real
  • Career

• If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

  

  James Herriot
  • Animal
  • Sick
  • Farmer

• 'Redneck' has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • People
  • Fun
  • Farmer

• My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Problem

• My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Pride
  • Farmer
  • Labourer

• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Growing
  • Food
  • Engineering

• At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Time
  • Question
  • King

• It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Farmer

• As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Doubt

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