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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986) -- Wendell Berry
I have spent my life reassembling the family farm. -- Max Burns
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. -- Sam Donaldson
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life. -- Glen Taylor
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
I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one. -- Doc Hastings
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco. -- Armstrong Williams
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. -- Tom Vilsack
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
You can't have the family farm without the family. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids. -- Douglas Carter Beane
My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children. -- Billy Graham
We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm. -- Papa John Creach
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. -- Hugo Chavez
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can. -- Jonathan Safran Foer

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