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You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer. -- Will Rogers
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. -- Gloria Swanson
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. -- Anthony Bourdain
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. -- Carla Bley
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. -- Piers Anthony
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap. -- Tracy Kidder
And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right. -- Tamora Pierce
I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations. -- Jerry Falwell
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. -- Emily Dickinson
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. -- Tracy Kidder
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting. -- Keith Donohue
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. -- Tracy Kidder
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. -- John Gould
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. -- Will Rogers
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. -- O. Henry
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. -- William Howard Taft
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? -- Tom Barrett
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. -- Lenny Kravitz
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. -- B. C. Forbes
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. -- Bill Bryson
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. -- Luke Evans
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
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land. -- Pawan Kalyan
I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow. -- Eva Longoria
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. -- Miguel Indurain
I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. -- Hugh Jackman
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. -- Nikolai Gogol
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school. -- Richard Flanagan
Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. -- Gerard Way
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. -- Andrew Jackson
When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder. -- Dick Cavett
My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together. -- Jose Andres Puerta
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? -- Jerry Brown
Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. -- Saint Basil
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. -- Sebastian Junger
I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11. -- Miranda Hart
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. -- Alison Sweeney
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. -- Luke Bryan
Be a gentleman farmer. -- Juvenal
Never answer a question from a farmer. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I am a farmer singing at the plow -- Jesse Stuart
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands. -- William Blake
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. -- Eugene Fitch Ware
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written. -- Wendell Berry
A farmer is always going to be rich next year. -- Philemon
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. -- H. L. Mencken
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? -- George Carlin
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. -- Mike Connolly
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. -- Bill Monroe
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music. -- Jamie Wyeth
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman. -- Carey Williams
Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure. -- Walter Russell
[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. -- Ingrid Bergman
Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer. -- Nick Offerman
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. -- Bill Dedman
For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor. -- Robert Burns
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend. -- Jerry Moran
I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game. -- John Marston
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. -- Hugh MacLennan
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. -- Norman Parkinson
I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia. -- Jimmy Carter
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer. -- Evan Esar
Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving? -- Ronald Reagan
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. -- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. -- Sam Brownback
A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land. -- Habeeb Akande
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ... -- Vita Sackville-West
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. -- Che Guevara
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. -- Stephen Gardiner
Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest? -- Chris Murray
A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't. -- Noam Chomsky
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. -- David Ricardo
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. -- Bharati Mukherjee
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress. -- Bruce Braley
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. -- Lawrence Welk
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. -- Mae West
As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for. -- Evan Thomas
Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation. -- Strive Masiyiwa
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. -- Bjork
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. -- Jonathan Swift
As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine. -- Laurence J. Peter
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. -- Rumi
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. -- E. B. White
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter -- Rodney Atkins
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members. -- Aldo Leopold
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. -- E. W. Howe
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. -- Edward Abbey
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. -- David F. Houston
Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income. -- Kushal Pal Singh
Courage is a commodity I sell in times of peace. But then my father was a chicken farmer. -- Jarod Kintz
I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet. -- John Adams
She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate. -- Paula Marantz Cohen
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. -- Willie Nelson
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song -- Masanobu Fukuoka
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. -- Bill Gates
Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer. -- Narendra Modi
A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell. -- Evan Esar
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. -- Jane Smiley
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. -- Michael Pollan
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. -- Samuel Parris
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. -- Walter Scott
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. -- James Herriot
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. -- Thomas Jefferson
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. -- Wendell Berry
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. -- Joel Salatin
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. -- Will Rogers
Can the government grow the economy like a farmer grows an erection, or a male porn star grows a tree? -- Jarod Kintz
Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses. -- Will Rogers
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. -- Narendra Modi
I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. -- Moby

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