“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. ”
- Jim Bunning- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown he or she left behind. ”
- Clementine Paddleford- Copy
- 273
“ Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something. ”
- Buck Owens- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week. ”
- Jane Hamilton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 195
“ Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.2K
“ While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough / In England - now! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 43
“ We relax at the ranch, which if not heaven itself, probably has the same zip code. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. ”
- S.J. Perelman- Copy
- 313
“ The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. ”
- Henry Beston- Copy
- 2.3K
“ All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the unvisionary language of farm, city and love. ”
- Paul Engle- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. ”
- Veronica Lake- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. ”
- Henri Alain- Copy
- 1.9K
“ They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.3K
“ You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. ”
- Cleveland Amory- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. ”
- Carl Burns- Copy
- 989
“ Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 752
“ I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 108
“ Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany… ”
- Hermann Goering- Copy
- 94
“ Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far. ”
- Muddy Waters- Copy
- 994
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