Farmers Quotes

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.”
― John Barnes

“Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.”
― Jonathan Gash, The Rich and the Profane

“When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers.

I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”
― Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

“No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp. ”
― A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth and Other Stories

“Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water.”
― Hope Larson, Salt Magic

“Growing up, I figured God must really love farmers. Just look at how often sowing and reaping are mentioned in the Bible! Over and over again the Good Book references barns overflowing, bringing in the harvest, and casting seed on fertile ground. It does take incredible faith to be in a profession where so much is out of your control.”
― Kristi Noem, Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland

“जुआरी भयानक तरीक़े से आशावादी होता है। भविष्य से अनजान वह दांव पर दांव लगाता है। मानव इतिहास का पहला जुआरी किसान था। आज भी उसके जैसा जूआ और कोई नहीं खेलता। कुदरत पर जुआ लगाने वाला वह अकेला प्राणी है जो अपने हौसले की बाजी लड़ाता है।”
― Vandana Yadav, शुद्धि

“जूआ खेलने का सदियों पुराना सामाजिक मान्यता प्राप्त नाम है खेती। इसमें किसान प्रकृति पर दांव लगाता है। सफल हुआ तो रोटी का प्रबंध हो गया, हार जाए तो अगली फसल पर फिर से दांव खेलता है।”
― Vandana Yadav, आई डोन्ट लाइक यू

“I’m serious,” Donovan grunts, throwing the crumpled ball at Nolan. “Even if they succeeded, they were fucked. Two teenage rich kids running away to do what? Become farmers? They had servants that did everything for them. They wouldn’t have lasted a week.”

Kaleb sighs from the other side of Connor. “That’s not the point of the play. It’s a commentary on values and what you have to lose when you let petty things get in the way of what truly matters, your family and loved ones.”
― H.A. Wills, Bound Spirit

“Where was I headed? I didn't quite know. I had talent, facility, and a desire to produce-but steadily my market was diminishing. I fell back on illustrated jokes, and even here struck a snag. Tramps were no longer so funny to me as they had been. And my attitude toward the farmer had changed-I no longer wanted to depict him as a mere comic character. His life was all too often bound up with tragedy. The Populists had been right in many of the things they had said about the farmer's plight.”
― Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times

“Most of those who do not farm treat faeces like shit.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bush men are understated in just about every way—their words, their affection, their need for things. They don’t need much of anything. They’re understated except when it comes to hard work and duty. Their resilience and determination to get out into the paddocks every day, to an extent, keeps the cemetery at bay. Being outside, in the elements, adds substantial weight to their life force.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Hard work is an overrated concept, a 30-second viral video makes you more famous than 10 years of hard work in theater. Historically, Who has been the most hardworking? Farmers right. Who commits the maximum number of suicides due to poverty? Farmers.”
― Anupam S Shlok

“Government grants for cattle farmers are a great way to grow your business. Grantees receive money to help with expenses such as feeding, water, and hay production.”
― Allen Marks

“One of Washington's worst assumptions is this belief that bureaucrats in a handful of federal agencies in DC know more and care more about the natural environment than the people who own, cultivate, and depend on that land for their very survival. In reality, there are no greater environmentalists than farmers. They love their land. For so many of them, it's their legacy---what they hope to leave to their children someday.
People tend to take pretty good care of their legacies.
Farmers do so because we literally live the lessons of the land in our daily work. We teach our kids how to protect it, because we'll go broke and starve if we don't.”
― Kristi Noem, Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland

“Farmers must be supported with subsidy to boost production of food.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“While Bernice didn't much trust a baby-faced physician, she appreciated young men called to serve as preachers and farmers, the highest of callings in her opinion, cultivators of souls and the land.”
― Talya Tate Boerner, Bernice Runs Away

“If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the ones who have conspired with nature to save humanity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“It is part of nature's plan to bountifully reward farmers. And to wipe out starvation from their language and memory.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Growing plants from seeds
is slow, but it's a quiet romance.
The moment they sprout,
peeking over the soil,
it feels like life
unfolding in the light.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“Farmers breathe life into the world.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“As farmers we now have to reconcile the need to produce more food than any other generation in history with the necessity to do that sustainably and in ways that allow nature to survive alongside us. We need to bring the two clashing ideologies about farming together to make it as sustainable and as diverse as it can be.”
― James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

“I share your doubt,' said Uncle Ambrose. 'But farm by all means if you wish. Any one of the local farmers will be delighted to instruct you and your total lack of talent will give great pleasure.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, Linnets and Valerians

“Nobody sang of a farmer’s toil, or told tales of their back-breaking labour.”
― Ray Cluley

“....We are not here to build tools for farmers. We're here to build tools with farmers - tools that reflect how they think, act, and adapt to change.”
― Kingsley ofosu-Ampong