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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. — Hamlin Garland

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

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking. — George W. Bush

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go." — Nick Offerman

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon. — Tom Douglas

Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their fine blacks except on Beltane. — Kendare Blake

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. — Will Rogers

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo

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

Farmers make culture. Nomads make war. — Pierce Brown

Farm labor had stained his hands, but music stained his heart. — Brenda Sutton Rose

The city people call us shit farmers," Otto sneered, "but now — Edith Hahn Beer

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? — F Scott Fitzgerald

Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook. — Judy Rodgers

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things. — Rush D. Holt Jr.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. — Bharati Mukherjee

I think I'm looking at one of the air ships the farmers tried to take down. — Ally Condie

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers. — Ronald Reagan

I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets. — Narendra Modi

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India. — Narendra Modi

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers. — Tim Holden

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

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

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers. — Jerry Moran

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? — George Carlin

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain. — George Crabbe

I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better. — Will Rogers

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth. — Narendra Modi

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

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers. — Christine Milne

Environmentalists blame the farmers for overdosing with pesticides, and the farmers blame the consumers for demanding blemish-free fruit. — William Alexander

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer ploughs the manor. — Robert Burns

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau

The farmers are the founders of civilization. — Daniel Webster

Are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings — Ann Voskamp

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

When farmers lose their land, they lose their soul, — Anchee Min

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms. — Daryl Hannah

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. — Paul Prudhomme

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. — Robert Dallek

If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers. — Yuval Noah Harari

Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ... — Orson Scott Card

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. — Li Zhaoxing

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up ... Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. — Lester R. Brown

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. — James Woolsey

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard. — Sheri L. Dew

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

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad. — Sanjay Dutt

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment. — Alice Waters

Farmers and soldiers knew about the weather. Weather could be the great determiner between failure and success, the great test of one's staying power. — David McCullough

Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. — Erik Larson

The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe. — Harper Fox

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer. — Frederick Lenz

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble. — Harry S. Truman

She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help her neighbors when and as she could. — Michael Tinker Pearce

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. — Eric Ripert

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles. — Eddie Irvine

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers. — Vin Suprynowicz

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams. — H.W. Brands

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers. — Wendell Berry

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision. — Roy Blunt

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists — Thomas Jefferson

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. — Michael Pollan

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig Von Mises

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information. — J.P. Rangaswami

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. — Honeysuckle Weeks

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. — Joel Salatin

I am a farmer singing at the plow — Jesse Stuart

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

I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce. — Shawn Amos

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. — Eugene Fitch Ware

Apostles who do not save souls and establish churches are like farmers who do not produce a harvest. — David Cannistraci

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! — John Dillinger

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers. — Roger Avary

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley. — Rudolfo Anaya

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices ... — Ray Kinsella

Never underestimate a farmer. — Lance Conrad

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

Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer. — Nick Offerman

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty. — Nelson Rockefeller

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods. — Keira Knightley

Farmers buy a lot of computers. — Seymour Cray

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. — Willie Nelson

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

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks. — Will Rogers

Farmers grow on the land. I suppose farmers grow farmers, rather than using sex to reproduce. — Jarod Kintz

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

Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle. — Denise Chavez

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Parity is for farmers. — Seymour Cray

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people. — William Davis

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. — Will Rogers