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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time. -- E. W. Howe
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. -- Willie Nelson
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. -- Dick Armey
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Farmers buy a lot of computers. -- Seymour Cray
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing. -- Will Rogers
Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. -- Li Zhaoxing
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks. -- Will Rogers
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. -- Henry David Thoreau
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. -- Will Rogers
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. -- Will Rogers
Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things. -- Rush D. Holt, Jr.
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. -- Ruth Stout
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. -- Lester R. Brown
Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. -- Will Rogers
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington. -- Will Rogers
I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better. -- Will Rogers
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving. -- Ellen Gustafson
The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms. -- Will Rogers
Farmers scrape a living out of that cold earth, planting on sheltered slopes facing south, combing the yama for fleece, carding and spinning and weaving the prime wool, selling pelts to the carpet-factories." -- Anonymous
The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more. -- Will Rogers
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities. -- Mohsin Hamid
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables ... -- Anne Tyler
Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question. -- Joseph Stalin
Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are. -- Theodore Schultz
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. -- John Moody
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world. -- Ike Skelton
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world -- Ike Skelton
You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows. -- Dylan Moran
Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores. -- Van Jones
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity. -- Ruth Stout
Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together. -- Jonathan Gash
You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light. -- Henry David Thoreau
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty. -- Nelson Rockefeller
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. -- Joel Salatin
We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard. -- Sheri L. Dew
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. -- George Crabbe
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. -- Will Rogers
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. -- Willie Nelson
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. -- Daniel Webster
More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. -- Bill Maher
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. -- E. B. White
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. -- William Howard Taft
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
Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. -- Debbie Stabenow
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. -- Hamlin Garland
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
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. -- Pat Oliphant
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. -- Michael McCaul
In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around. -- Ike Skelton
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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 see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. -- George Sand
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. -- Daniel Webster
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
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, Jr.
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. -- Bill Gates
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. -- Henry David Thoreau
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. -- Howard Graham Buffett
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. -- Phil Robertson
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners. -- Mark Udall
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
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. -- Dorothy Stang
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. -- Grover Norquist
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. -- Zac Goldsmith
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking. -- Tom Colicchio
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill. -- Tristram Stuart
Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.' -- Pat Paulsen
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. -- Lady Gregory
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. -- Richard Jefferies
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized Jersey cow across a stage in front of an audience with judges, and maybe the cow even twirls around a couple of times. Then the winning cow gets a satin ribbon draped over it, which has the title and the year on it. -- Sherry Argov
Parity is for farmers. -- Seymour Cray
The farmers are the founders of civilization. -- Daniel Webster
ours are the only farmers who can read Homer -- Thomas Jefferson
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. -- Michael Pollan
I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods. -- Sharon Jones
NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles. -- Eddie Irvine
I want to empower farmers to expand their market share. -- Ted Cruz
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. -- Andrew Mellon
I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices... -- Ray Kinsella
The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. -- Eric Schlosser
I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers. -- Ronald Reagan
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains. -- John Shimkus
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers. -- Wendell Berry
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. -- Eric Ripert
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers. -- Victor Hugo
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers. -- Roger Avary
For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets. -- Jose Andres Puerta
What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers. -- Jerry Moran
I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce. -- Shawn Amos
I planted a plant in the midst of spies, who were disguised as farmers. -- Jarod Kintz
Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers. -- Tim Holden
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. -- Jasmine Guinness
A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers. -- Vin Suprynowicz
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. -- Paul Prudhomme
We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood. -- Narendra Modi
I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon. -- Tom Douglas
Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it. -- Will Rogers
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms. -- Daryl Hannah
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers. -- John Catsimatidis
We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India. -- Narendra Modi
Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers. -- Jerry Moran
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists -- Thomas Jefferson
I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad. -- Sanjay Dutt
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods. -- Keira Knightley
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up. -- Tom Vilsack
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information. -- J.P. Rangaswami

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