“ Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. ”
- George Crabbe- Copy
- 284
“ A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 306
“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. ”
- Ruth Stout- Copy
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“ Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 91
“ Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns' people worry all the time. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 363
“ Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
- 294
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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