Farmers Quotes

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Will carpenters become the farmers of tomorrow when all of the trees are no more?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“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

“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

“Owning two thirds of the personal property of the country, evading payment of taxes
wherever possible, the corporations throw almost the whole burden up on the land, upon the little homes, and the personal property of the farms”
― Robert Marion La Follette

“ये सच है उनके दम से ज़िंदगी त्योहार लगती है
कोई माने न माने रोज़ होली-तीज हैं वो लोग
उन्हीं के दम से तो सारी ज़मीनें भी सुहागन हैं
पकी फसलें छुपाए ख़ुद में ज़िंदा बीज हैं वो लोग”
― Tripurari

“We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.”
― Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle

“Tracing the history of herders-farmers clashes goes back as far as the early 90s. Sometimes it takes several decades to decode the meaning of something that has been with you for a long period. Even in the 200 Naira note, it was boldly drawn where cows are heading to eat farm produce. It was boldly embedded, but we are just realizing it today, maybe because we don't take note or don't care to notice.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Farming as much as fishing are necessary to ensure food security.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All farmers will go heaven because they are feeding people in this universe.”
― Dr Sivakumar Gowder

“Without the farmers, there is no food.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Paddocks are just prisons that we fail to see.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“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