X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Farmers" (228)

Page 1 of 10
Filter & Style
Image
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world
Ike Skelton
Image
Farmers are philosophical they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.
Ruth Stout
Image
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
Will Rogers
Image
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
Will Rogers
Image
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
Anne Tyler
Image
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.
Lester R. Brown
Image
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
Li Zhaoxing
Image
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.
Ellen Gustafson
Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
Ruth Stout
Image
Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Image
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
Will Rogers
Image
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
Will Rogers
Image
People should go to their local grocery store or farmers' market and buy ugly, misshapen foods, then cook with them and document their dishes. And share not only the funny-looking foods, but the fantastic results.
Dana Cowin
Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
Andy Goldsworthy
Image
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
Danny Huston
Image
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
Anjelica Huston
Image
Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast informal economy .
David Bornstein
Image
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.
Dennis Hopper
Image
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
Barack Obama
Image
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings
Image
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.
Dorothy Stang
Previous
Next