Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.

It is government trying to protect people from themselves. GMO products are a tool conventional farmers use to eke out a living. Tradition is that neighboring farmers work out their differences and generally they can do a pretty good job.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land.

Given where prices have been, there has been a lot of on- farm storage by farmers, which has slowed deliveries,

I grew up on a farm and it is in my blood.

I grew up next to a farm in western Pennsylvania. This smell is 100 times worse.

If we go into the communities and say, 'We'd like to put a wind farm here,' and they all say, 'Not in our backyard,' then we might not be able to meet our goals.

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Debi Mazar

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

There are about a half-dozen farms that are very scared. We need lots of people. It really is different this year.

With our farmers here in the U.S., there has been a pretty good movement over the winter. It seems like producer sales are slow, so you're really reliant on South America.

We as farmers have a lot of similarities. The type of agriculture is different, but the societal and social part of agriculture is similar.

Sandra Lerner

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

We all love the 2002 farm bill. We don't know if we'll get to keep it. It's a good safety net. There are things that could be corrected, but overall it's a good farm bill.

David Nielsen

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers or stomped it with his foot.

Trying to farm around telephone poles, you can do it, but it's not easy.

Steve Bridges

Most produce travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the consumer.

Patrick Sullivan

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

I think there needs to be subsidies in place to make sure growers can farm successfully.

Kevin Moore

Just an old-fashioned demonstration. How farming used to be.

Bud Selig

Mark is doing wonderfully well, ... He is a perfect owner. Thoughtful and quiet. He's got a great farm system going and I predict more good things for my old team. I wish them the best.

I think gradually, with the procurement of grants, we might be able to restore some of the farm back to the way it should be.

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

Patricia Polacco

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Marcus Samuelsson

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Mostly the rain has come at a good time for our warm-season hay crops. We have a lot of farmers who will be planting some hay crops.

Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.

We need to realize that there is very little incentive for farmers to report suspected outbreaks,

You can be a really successful farmer with an oil well in your backyard.