Quotes About Farmer

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless centre.

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

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

The idea of land 'ownership' as such was an alien one. A white farmer once told me of his grandfather going to see a local chief about buying some land. 'Buy land?' said the chief. 'You must be crazy, you don't buy the wind or the water or the trees.

By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!

Almost all the proofreading editors I've encountered seem to have gone to a college where there's a class listed in the catalog as "How To Put Commas In The Wrong Place And The Writer In A Coma.

As for paranoia, anyone who has the imagination to postulate all possibilities is automatically a paranoiac.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

Under the auspices of Just Folks—described by Lindbergh's newly created Office of American Absorption as "a volunteer work program introducing city youth to the traditional ways of heartland life"—my brother left on the last day of June 1941 for a summer "apprenticeship" with a Kentucky tobacco farmer.

I am a sailor's tomb. Beside me lies a farmer. Hell is the same, under the land and sea.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

The standard fiber of world history, America's traditional crop, hemp, could provide our textiles and paper and be the premier source for cellulose. The war industries—DuPont, Allied Chemical, Monsanto, etc.,—are protected from competition by the marijuana laws. They make war on the natural cycle and the common farmer.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

On the surface, said the deep voice of Andrew Ryan booming from hidden speakers, The farmer tills the soil, trading the strength off his arm for a land of his own. But the parasites say, 'No! What is yours is ours! We are the state; we are God; we demand our share!

A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer.

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.

The Indian farmer suicide story is a myth built on tragic individual anecdotes and extrapolated to a whole country by those like Vandana Shiva with an ideological axe to grind and little concern about the true facts.

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

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving.