Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Sullivan

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

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nicolas Cage

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

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.

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.

Joel Salatin

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

Joel Salatin

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

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

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

What a farmer does not know, he won't eat.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

It's no different than a farmer keeping his grain in storage playing the futures.

There's just a lot of snow up there in the mountains right now, which I'm sure the farmers are happy to hear - the farmers and the salmon.

Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good reason to be wary.

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.

A guy like John Givens, who sells at farmers markets, that's the way to go.