Farmers Quotes

We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Parity is for farmers.

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.

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

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

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

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

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

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

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.