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Farm to table is a personal choice. -- Tom Douglas
There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- James Wright
My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. -- Meg Cabot
I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really. -- Martin Freeman
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms. -- Orville Redenbacher
Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence. -- Jim Rohn
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. -- Will Rogers
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. -- Ralph Steadman
If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin. -- Jeff Foxworthy
In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at. -- Gail Simmons
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place. -- RuPaul
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. -- Anne Rice
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. -- George Orwell
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others... -- Randall Jarrell
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent. -- John Robbins
Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production. -- Sharon Gannon
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship. -- Shirley Temple
The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm. -- John Bytheway
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. -- D. H. Lawrence
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm. -- Clive Sinclair
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details. -- Moira J. Moore
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. -- Cleveland Amory
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. -- Frederick Douglass
- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary. -- Joseph Stalin
Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary. -- Joseph Stalin
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm. -- Edward Abbey
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention. -- Dolores Huerta
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right. -- Jane Goodall
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest. -- Stephen Covey
The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm. -- Dana Stabenow
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
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music. -- Nikki Sixx
I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers. -- Arsenio Hall
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. -- Joel Salatin
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding. -- John Updike
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep. -- Jon Katz
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep." -- Jon Katz
The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security. -- Will Rogers
Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities. -- Emily Deschanel
The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement. -- Debbie Stabenow
Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast. -- Mitch Hedberg
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? -- Robert Mugabe
Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors and add a bunch of accessories and some cool shoes to jeans and a T-shirt. -- China Anne McClain
In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together. -- Kenny Troutt
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. -- Malcolm X
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. -- Dick Armey
I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy. -- Adam Lamberg
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. -- Ariel Sharon
Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm. -- Suzanne Somers
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that. -- Conor Oberst
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet. -- Garrett Hedlund
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-Exupery
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. -- Michael Franti
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. -- Lewis Thomas
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback. -- Otis Redding
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm. -- Richie Havens
Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table. -- Si Robertson
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life. -- Luke Bryan
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. -- Rowan Atkinson
We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows. -- Kristen Schaal
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. -- David Mixner
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. -- Vince Cable
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. -- Tina Turner
I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do. -- Tyson Chandler
I was raised to farm work. -- Abraham Lincoln
It's like a banana farm for guns! -- Brandon Sanderson
How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O -- Henny Youngman
To see the farm is to leave it. -- Stefan Molyneux
What is a farm but a mute gospel? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love the farm, I love growing stuff. -- Bill Kreutzmann
We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm. -- John Entwistle
Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture. -- Washington Irving
Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic. -- Eden Robinson
I have spent my life reassembling the family farm. -- Max Burns
I think we're like farm animals before an earthquake. -- Moby
She isn't missing. She's at the farm right now. -- Ed Gein
My father was in charge of managing the farm. -- Julia Child
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more. -- Jason Calacanis
I grew up on a dairy and beef farm. -- Candice Swanepoel
You can't have the family farm without the family. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm. -- George Carlin
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich. -- Larry Holmes
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property. -- Charles Fort
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm. -- Anton Chekhov
I've got a farm in England where I breed horses. -- Davy Jones
Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw. -- Jim Hightower
I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School. -- Greg Brenneman
I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house. -- Nikki Reed
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. -- Phyllis Bottome
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. -- Aldo Leopold
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. -- William Atherton
I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t. -- Mitch Hedberg
Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows! -- Yves Saint Laurent
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. -- Gavin DeGraw
Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under... -- Deirdre Imus
My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking. -- Hugh Hefner
If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter. -- George McGovern
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio. -- Roy Rogers
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. -- G. Stanley Hall
Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever. -- John Marsden
It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm. -- Jasmine Guinness
What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us? -- Dwayne Andreas
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. -- Isak Dinesen
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat. -- Edward Abbey
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. -- George Washington
Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. -- Alice Cooper
Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? -- Nora Roberts

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