Quotes of Farmer - somelinesforyou

“ The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. ”

- Eugene F. Ware

“ Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. ”

- George Crabbe

“ A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. ”

- Ruth Stout

“ Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns' people worry all the time. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Bill Bryson

“ There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ”

- Hamlin Garland

“ When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. ”

- Lynwood L. Giacomini

“ All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "0 God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.". ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ”

- Richard Cobden

“ My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

“ Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. ”

- James H. Douglas

“ Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ 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

“ Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by… ”

- Frederick Jackson Turner

“ I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them — the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, / Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: / And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. ”

- Bible

“ It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco. ”

- Allen Boyd
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