Farmer Quotes

1. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

2. “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”

3. “If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”

4. “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.”

5. “I come from the family of farmers. I am a son of a farmer.”

6. “There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.”

7. “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.”

8. “If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”

9. “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”

10. “Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.”

11. “I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.”

12. “Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.”

13. “I thought I was gonna be a farmer.”

14. “The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.”

15. “I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer.”

16. “I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”

17. “There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.”

18. “I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.”

19. “My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.”

20. “There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.”

21. “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.”

22. “My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.”

23. “There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.”

24. “My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.”

25. “Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.”

26. “My father was a tricycle driver before, then he became a farmer and a fisherman.”

27. “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.”

28. “I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.”

29. “I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.”

30. “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.”

31. “I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.”

32. “I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.”

33. “My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.”

34. “As a farmer's son, I've always been forced to eat vegetables.”

35. “When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.”

36. “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.”

37. “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.”

38. “The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”

39. “Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.”

40. “As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.”

41. “Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.”

42. “'Redneck' has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.”

43. “We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.”

44. “There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.”

45. “I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.”

46. “My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.”

47. “In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.”

48. “As a farmer, I understand firsthand the challenging circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created within our agriculture community.”

49. “My father grew up quite poor actually in a small farming village in South India. His grandfather was a farmer, his father was a farmer, and he was expected to be a farmer as well - his life took a different path.”

50. “My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.”

51. “It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.”

52. “I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'”

53. “My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.”

54. “My dad is a farmer, so I used to love watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' - that's where I got most of my death and drama.”

55. “The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.”

56. “I'm happy for Tevin Farmer, I'm happy for everybody from Philly who's doing their thing.”

57. “Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.”

58. “When I help a farmer, I don't differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.”

59. “I love to shop at the farmer's market or grab something from the garden and roast that.”

60. “Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.”

61. “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.”

62. “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?”

63. “I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.”

64. “I once read that I had six kids and was a pig farmer. That's not entirely accurate.”

65. “People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She's in the middle of nowhere - the closest airport is, like, three hours away - and she manages to connect with black people.”

66. “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.”

67. “My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.”

68. “In a small town, residents don't wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.”

69. “As a small farmer in Nambe, and now as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I understand firsthand how vital agriculture is for New Mexico's local economies.”

70. “I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.”

71. “If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.”

72. “I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.”

73. “I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.”

74. “It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.”

75. “Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.”

76. “My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.”

77. “Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.”

78. “I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.”

79. “Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.”

80. “Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.”

81. “But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.”

82. “The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.”

83. “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.”

84. “My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.”

85. “A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.”

86. “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.”

87. “Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.”

88. “I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.”

89. “I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.”

90. “A buyer can buy anything from wherever he gets it cheap. Where will the Indian trader or farmer go in this case? Are we ready to see people sitting with their product and no international retailer wanting to buy from them?”

91. “If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.”

92. “I believe in Jai Jawan Jai Kisan - a country where the farmer is unhappy is on its path towards destruction.”

93. “Every farmer in Punjab grows paddy and wheat besides cotton in the south western districts.”

94. “As a farmer's son, I am familiar with the long, mucky shifts of our dairy workers.”

95. “Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.”

96. “It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”

97. “My siblings and I had to earn our own pocket money so from the age of about 10 I had a job. I did a paper round, helped with the farmer's delivery at the weekend, cut hedges for neighbours and worked on a market stall. Then I'd go and buy a record with my hard-won money.”

98. “I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'”

99. “The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.”

100. “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.”

101. “My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.”

102. “The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.”

103. “Never answer a question from a farmer.”

104. “As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.”

105. “If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.”

106. “That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.”

107. “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.”

108. “As a small farmer, I know that farming is a tough job on any day and COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges facing New Mexico's farmers and ranchers.”

109. “Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.”

110. “Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”

111. “Roger Kahn is someone with a gazillion dollars who thinks that he can use his vast fortune to buy television spots, particularly network television, and boost up his positives, make him appear to be a gentleman farmer, and cover up his warts.”

112. “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.”

113. “The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.”

114. “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.”

115. “Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!”

116. “I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.”

117. “The farmer, as conceived and portrayed by me in 'Upkar' is a modern, educated one. He is socially conscious, aware of his rights and duties and above all abhors unethical division of land. I wanted to show that the Indian farmer is not merely a sufferer of oppression.”

118. “My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.”

119. “When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.”

120. “The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.”

121. “Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.”

122. “I once termed my sense of dress as 'urban farmer' and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.”

123. “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.”

124. “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.”

125. “Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.”

126. “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.”

127. “Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.”

128. “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'.”

129. “As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.”

130. “If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.”

131. “But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.”

132. “My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”

133. “When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.”

134. “It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.”

135. “We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.”

136. “Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.”

137. “I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.”

138. “I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.”

139. “I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.”

140. “Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”

141. “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.”

142. “I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.”

143. “If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.”

144. “I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.”

145. “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.”

146. “I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.”

147. “Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.”

148. “Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.”

149. “If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?”

150. “Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.”

151. “I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.”

152. “I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.”

153. “I'm a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I'll be a farmer. It's something that I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.”

154. “I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.”

155. “I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.”

156. “I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.”

157. “To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.”

158. “My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.”

159. “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.”

160. “I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.”

161. “As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.”

162. “I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. 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.”

163. “My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.”

164. “We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.”

165. “In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.”

166. “I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.”

167. “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.”

168. “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.”

169. “My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.”

170. “To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.”

171. “I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.”

172. “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.”

173. “Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.”

174. “Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.”

175. “I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me.”

176. “I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.”

177. “I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.”

178. “Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.”

179. “I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.”

180. “I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.”

181. “When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.”

182. “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.”

183. “I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.”

184. “I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.”

185. “My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.”

186. “Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.”

187. “Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.”

188. “Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.”

189. “I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.”

190. “I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.”

191. “I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days.”

192. “Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.”

193. “I take my kids to the farmer's market - knowing I'm buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile.”

194. “My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.”

195. “Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.”

196. “People are quick to say with their mouth full, 'Well, the American farmer is on the dole.' But a loaf of bread is two bucks when it could be 10 bucks. I know what it is with the government in my business. We would be all for not having government in our business, but we need a fair system.”

197. “I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.”

198. “I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market.”

199. “In Montana, whether you're a farmer, whether you're a fisherman… you know that the climate is changing, and we need to do something about it.”

200. “If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.”

201. “I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.”

202. “I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store.”

203. “In the summer, I love to go up north to a cottage and relax by the lake, swim, go canoeing… I also love riding my bike around Toronto, going to the farmer's market, cooking. That sounds simple, but it's a luxury you don't have when you're living in hotels.”

204. “This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.”

205. “I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.”

206. “I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.”

207. “Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small village or a single farmer or fisherman to access and disseminate market information in order to get the best price for their products.”

208. “Don't accept what a grocery store has for you. Tell the store to get you want you want. If you want honey from a local farmer, organic honey, you tell them. We are in control. It's up to us as the consumer to get what we want.”

209. “I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.”

210. “For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.”

211. “I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.”

212. “I look forward to playing characters where I want to play the ordinary, to be honest… Farmer's wife, tailor's daughter, the teacher characters that exist for real emotions.”

213. “The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.”

214. “All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.”

215. “It takes the farmer 10 kgs of vegetation to feed the animal in order to produce 1 kg of meat. In other words a meat eater consumes 10 people's food!”

216. “I gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.”

217. “My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes… stuff like that.”

218. “The Left forces have a strong and growing presence in universities, youth organizations, and among trade unions and farmer organizations… This strength is bound to reflect in the parliamentary arena.”

219. “In any food crisis, it is the top of the food chain that suffers the most. In the case of farmer's distress, the top of food chain is us - the end consumer.”

220. “I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later, an actor whispered in my ear, 'It sounds like you're in line for James Herriot.' I read every book in about 48 hours.”

221. “So, I went to McGill University in Montreal to study soil chemistry and microbiology, which I did complete, but realized early that little of this could be applied in our country, because we were learning of a Green Revolution that would suit a farmer who had 3,500 acres and not our poor farmer.”

222. “I can't do heels - I look like a cowboy in drag. I've a terrible gait, and I'm more at home in wellies, riding boots or trainers. With my dad being a farmer, I was raised in a welly.”

223. “Green Revolution 1.0 came in 1966-67. I was a farmer then myself. Back then, we were getting food from wherever there was a surplus, Australia, the U.S., Canada. We signed an agreement with Americans and were getting wheat from them.”

224. “Punjab makes up 2 per cent of India's population and yet it produces 40 per cent of the nation's food pool. Even now, if tomorrow there is famine, it will be the Punjabi farmer who saves you. So, don't rely on the plenty of today, there may be a paucity tomorrow. Don't write Punjab off.”

225. “If a farmer is happy within a corporate set-up, he can choose that. If he is happy with his arthiya, he can stick with that.”

226. “High speed Internet is vital for education and telemedicine but also for every person, from small business owner and farmer to big corporation and hospital.”

227. “The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.”

228. “Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.”

229. “My mom, her only dream was just to be a farmer.”

230. “I would love it if my son becomes a farmer in today's day and age.”

231. “The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer Giles, Rover the Dog, Old Lob the shepherd and Mrs Cuddy the Cow. I was very fond of Mrs Cuddy.”

232. “I had a horse at Liverpool. A big grey thing called Bob. Lovely he was. We used to gallop up and down in the farmer's field next door and Bob would chuck me off all the time. I didn't tell the club about him, I didn't even consider horse riding to be a dangerous sport. It's only in retrospect that you realise these things.”

233. “One thing my wife does somewhat let me spend money on is buying farm ground and my brother's a farmer, And I cash-rent to him. That gives me the freedom if I want to go out and work on the farm, I can. If I want to spend the day with my family, I can do that.”

234. “I was born a farmer and I'll die a farmer.”

235. “Every day on the sets, I wait like a newcomer to see what the director has for me. I'll fall if he asks me to, cry on his instructions. But, the day I feel this is enough, I'll get back to what I would have been: a farmer.”