Quotes About Farmer

Third of the four "Greats of haiku. His father was a peasant farmer and packhorse hostler, in what we today call the Japan Alps. "Issa" literally means "one tea," indicating that life is as empty as froth on a cup of tea.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.

I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later, an actor whispered in my ear, 'It sounds like you're in line for James Herriot.' I read every book in about 48 hours.

If a farmer is happy within a corporate set-up, he can choose that. If he is happy with his arthiya, he can stick with that.

My mom, her only dream was just to be a farmer.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.

In the valleys where I was born they say it is God's sword, dropped from the heavens.' 'Don't you?' asked Flood. Whirrun rubbed some dirt from the crosspiece with his thumb. 'I used too.' 'Now?' 'God makes things, no? God is a farmer. A craftsman. A midwife. God gives things life.' He tipped his head back and looked up at the sky. 'What would God want with a sword?

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

I'd consider being a farmer. As long as I could live on the Pepperidge Farm. And raise Milanos.

This is the farmer sowing the corn,That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,That married the man all tattered and torn,That kissed the maiden all forlorn,That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,That tossed the dogThat worried the catThat killed the ratThat ate the maltThat lay in the house that Jack built.

Three blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,She cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life,As three blind mice?

Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

Adstreams floated everywhere, their unbearable lightness of being -- their simple promise -- catching you up: until the crown of butterflies round your head morphed into a crown of thorns and you found you had surrendered your intimate data to some twink-farmer forty blocks away on Pierpoint Street.

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.