Quotes with farmer

  • Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
  • If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
  • One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

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  • Eugene F. Ware The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
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  • Bharati Mukherjee A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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    Bharati Mukherjee
    Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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  • E. B. White A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Johnson A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • William E. Vaughan If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Dedman In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Never answer a question from a farmer.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carla Bley One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Will Rogers The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • John F. Kennedy The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Meister Eckhart The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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