Quotes with farmers

  • Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
  • Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
  • Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

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  • Arthur Laffer Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Antoine Lavoisier One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • George Crabbe Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Capper The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Daniel Webster When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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