Farmer Quotes

• 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

• I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • English
  • Farmer

• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  

  John Gould
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 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

• Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • Art
  • America
  • Today

• I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Music
  • Farmer

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

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Farmer

• Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

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

  

  Bill Monroe
  • High
  • Farmer

• 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

• I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Farmer

• I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Society
  • Farmer

• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• 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

• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Age
  • Farmer

• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Reality
  • Farmer

• When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Country
  • Past
  • Church

• I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Silly
  • Farmer

• There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

  

  Masanobu Fukuoka
  • Time
  • Song
  • Farmer

• I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Daughter
  • Grandmother
  • Farmer

• Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Cute
  • Farmer

• I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Real
  • Texas
  • Farmer

• Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Up
  • King
  • Frozen

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