Farmer Quotes

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Moment, Genius, House

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

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
Bill Gates

Wants, Fine, Somewhere

Never answer a question from a farmer.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Question, Answer

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

Love, Great, Men

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
Eva Longoria

Said, Move, Grow

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White

Good, Nothing, Sense

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

God, Him, Thoughts

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

Time, Money, Great

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
Grover Norquist

Time, Person, Him

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott

Empty, Leaves, Mice

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter

President, Democratic, Clinton

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes

Spring, Autumn, Plants

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
Hugh Jackman

Good, Made, Around

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Lenny Kravitz

Become, Dream, Sweet

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

High, Voice, Mandolin

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields

Life, Wife, Him

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
Miguel Indurain

Good, Bad, Father

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Jim Hightower

Today, Between, American

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Wife, Film, Next

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

Life, Father, Brothers

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
Emeril Lagasse

Family, Learning, Trying

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
Jim Davis

Today, Heart, Child

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

Family, Wanted, Tradition

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
Will Carleton

May, Fall, Full

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

Word, Three, King

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

Work, Food, Past

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

Care, Sick, Less

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

Food, Here, Public

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft

Country, Whole, Republican

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