Farmer Quotes

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.

David Ricardo

GreatValueFarmerPriceHimHigh

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

Bill Bryson

AgeOld AgeFarmerThreeOldOver

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.

George Akerlof

DaughterFarmerGrandfatherLived

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

O. Henry

HappyFarmerOldUpDaysOld Days

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

B. C. Forbes

GardeningSpringPlantsSeedsFarmer

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

Jerry Moran

FriendFarmerAgricultureAlways

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

Maya Hawke

FarmerAlwaysActProfessorEnglish

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.

Steve Bullock

FarmerYouKnowNeedChangingAbout

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Michael Sims

NatureRomanticFarmerWhitePerson

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.

Drew Bledsoe

BusinessInterestingFarmerYouMore

I thought I was gonna be a farmer.

Brock Lesnar

ThoughtFarmerGonna

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

FatherBrotherFarmFarmerPreacher

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

Tom Barrett

RainPicnicFarmerSayWhoCrop

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

Lenny Kravitz

SweetDinnerFarmerDreamBecomeUp

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

Jamie Wyeth

MusicFarmerEnjoyPigsSoothing

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.

Henry Selick

JobMePlantsMovingFarmerSurgeon

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

David F. Houston

TimeFoodFarmerDutyIndividual

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.

Alan Cheuse

MorningSkyRedBookFarmerResults

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.

Carolyn Chute

TodayArtDeathAmericaFarmerLook

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.

Oliver Ellsworth

GoodTruthFarmerProsperityDepend

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.

Jeremy Rifkin

FoodEngineeringFarmFarmerYou

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

Robert Patterson

FoodSocietyFarmerSavingsOrganic

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.

Stephen Fincher

ProblemsCommon SenseFarmerKnow

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

Moby

SleepPeopleFarmerLongWantWho

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