Farmer Quotes

“Never underestimate a farmer.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

tags: agriculture, farmer, farmers, farming, ffa

“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: farmers, farming, independence, patriotism, virtue

“No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp. ”
― A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

tags: farmers

“As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues

tags: callused-hands, calluses, farmer, farmer-quotes, farmers, hands, hard-work, music, southern-fiction

“Leaders are farmers; they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”
― Jalina Mhyana, The Wishing Bones

tags: farmers, gods, japan, nature, offerings, poetry, shintoism, spirits, still-lifes

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I seek him in the landscape of home, in the breeze brushing over rows of crops. I seek him in the seasons of planting and harvesting. A rugged man of the earth, he breathed life into this farm.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: farmer-quotes, farmers, harvest, home, landscape, life-quotes, rugged

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.”
― Mohith Agadi

tags: farmer, farmers, food, global-goals, goal-2, mohith-agadi, mohith-agadi-quotes, quote, quotes, quotes-by-mohith, sdgs, zero-hunger

“If the Lowland farmer spoke with an uncouth accent, dressed in rags, lived in a miserable hovel, and fed on the same grain he fed his animals, it was not because he was a savage but because the relentless marauding of the English left him with very little choice. As for why he didn't simply cut his throat, the answer is that he was a Presbyterian and did not expect much in the way of earthly happiness.”
― William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History

tags: farmer, farmers

“Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Jeg taler aldrig med Bønder, uden jeg jo lærer noget af dem: Thi de raisonnere ikke uden om solide og magtpaaliggende Ting, hvorom de vide fuldkommen Beskeed.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler

tags: earthbound, farmers, practicality, reason

“Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory”
― Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

tags: farmers, food, food-for-thought, health, healthy-living-natural-cure, inspirational, inspirational-living,life-lessons, parents-and-children, sustainable-living, victory

“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who I am. My heart belongs in the country. I’m a farmer, and I was shaped in the fields.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: earth, earth-quotes, farmer-quotes, farmers, fields, seed-quotes, seeds, soil

“He who doesn’t regard agriculture will truly value it when food becomes scarce!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

tags: agric, backyard-garden, farmers, food

“Farmers had freed themselves in part from the blind natural forces of storm and insects only to become increasingly the victims of the equally blind forces of market fluctuations. (p. 14)”
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy

tags: agricultural-revolution, agriculture, farmers, farming, technology

“Agriculture, however, is not and never has been a single monolithic interest in our society. We have always known differences among farmers of different regions, different crops, and different incomes. The difference in the forms of political organization have been determined principally by the manner in which economic differences have been resolved. (pp. 15–16)”
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy

tags: agrarianism, agriculture, farmers, politics

“As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they’ve ever known.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: brenda-sutton-rose, farm-life, farmers, farming, poetry, poetry-quotes, stringing-tobacco, tobacco-farming

“I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with the time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

tags: community, farmers, farms