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“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.”

Needs Father Waiting Work Dad Calm Weather Farms Farmers Harvest Fatherhood Farming Sowing Bad Weather

Author:Miguel Indurain

“A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.”

Ends Farmers Beans Firearms

Author:Vin Suprynowicz

“If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.”

Ifs Self Country Strong Loses Poverty Progress Standards Weak India Uplifting Farmers Agriculture Self Reliance Reliance Thrust Programmes

Author:Rajiv Gandhi

“It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.”

Ifs Thinking Years Artist Song Enjoy Mad Males Video Farms Farmers Boots Sheep Farming Jason Dressed Up Oasis Tractors

Author:Caitlin Moran

“The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.”

Knows Men Law Wise Seeds Be Good Generous Farmers Harvest Beneficial Good Will Procedures Sowing Laws Of Life

Author:Amado Nervo

“But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.”

Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution

“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.”

World Made Reason Opportunity Vision Coffee Around The World Farmers Realised Disparity Ethiopia World Vision

Author:Hugh Jackman

“If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.”

Ifs Use Grows Practice Millions Seeds Farmers Better Life Crops

Author:Bill Gates

“Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.”

Giving Teacher Soldier Fishes Goods Farmers Instruction Rice Merchants Fisherman

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?”

Ifs Farmers Wages Parsley

Author:George Carlin

“I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.”

Kids Fields Brother Walking South Hanging Out Farms Farmers Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.”

Way Guy Wish Sun Singing Farmers

Author:Dana Gould

“During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.”

“Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.”

Men Young Dies Fields Ready Photographer Photograph Israel Carrie Farmers Making Love

Author:Leonard Freed

“You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.”

I Can Animal Prejudice Photograph Meaningful Ties Farmers Fence

Author:Rondal Partridge

“There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.”

“An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.”

Men Existence Proud Eating Labor Drawing Scales Miserable Lazy Farmers Surplus Industrious

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.”

Thinking Father Five Four Stores Farmers Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Dinah Shore

“Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.”

Attention Growing Up Farmers Show Business

Author:Mac McAnally

“A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.”

Country America Left Process White Media Son Racism Internals Latin Activist Farmers Imaginary Colonialism Mexican Latin America Leftists Latin American

Author:Bocafloja

“The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.”

Thinking Theory One Day Conclusion Observation Necks Justify Chickens Farmers Justification Feeding

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I was once asked if I'd like to meet the president of a certain country. I said, "No, but I'd love to meet some sheepherders." The sheepherders, farmers and taxi drivers are often the most interesting people.”

People Ifs Said Country Certain President Interesting Drivers Farmers Most Interesting Taxi

Author:James A. Michener

“In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.”

Years Country Half Demand Patterns Newspapers Advertising Canada Etc Hotel Farmers Ripe Sleepy Annexation

Author:Friedrich Engels

“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'”

Ifs Knows Want Four Heard Streets Wall News Campaigns Farmers Better Off Slogans

Author:Bill Maher

“California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.”

Reason Strange Worried California Japan Farmers Marijuana Radiation Just Being Crops Paranoid

Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

Kids House Known Enemy Doors Car Fronts Passing Passings Farmers Front Doors Rigged Nebraska Shotguns Intruders

Author:Dick Cavett

“Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.”

People Trying Looks My Family Farmers Nevertheless Tobacco

Author:William Davis

“When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.”

People Whole Goal Cutting Healthy Eating Notion Including Fats Destructive Farmers Grain Wheat Prevailing Whole Grains

Author:William Davis

“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.”

Two Different Turns Poor Cases Taken Imagine Perspective Reader Accounts Instance African American Reports Farmers Familiarity Terrain Preconceptions

Author:William Finnegan

“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.”

Trying Doe Different War Bigs Fall Military Quiet Glory Falling In Love Active Fulfillment Farmers Existential Routes Inquisitive Quiet Life Conundrums Wrangling

Author:James Norton

“I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.”

Thinking Should Writing Character Pain Next Temples Farmers

Author:Kevin Moffett

“We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.”

World Art Reason Might Culture Grows Share Driven Dependent Farmers Art And Culture

Author:Amartya Sen

“Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that make us rich and poor are matters just of luck. To somehow revel in ones privilege would be a mistake. An even bigger mistake would be trying to convert that into a theory that the rich are so much more productive than many of us.”

Trying Art Matter Would Be Culture Grows Differences Poor Mistake Rich Theory Bigger Luck Privilege Dependent Productive Farmers Rich And Poor Art And Culture

Author:Amartya Sen

“I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.”

“I think much of my inspiration comes from nature. I feel alive when I take a long hike with my dog or when I just spend time outdoors, appreciating the beauty of this world. I even feel alive and inspired when I walk through farmers markets appreciating and learning about local fruits and vegetables.”

Thinking World Feels Long Inspiration Walks Alive Dog This World Appreciate Fruit Inspired Locals Farmers Vegetables End Times My Dog Spend Time Fruits And Vegetables Farmers Markets

Author:Amanda Schull

“The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.”

Thinking World Children Growth Poor Pay Trade Farmers Royalty Poorest Free Trade Monsanto Agribusiness

Author:Vandana Shiva

“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.”

People Ideas Seems Kids Vision College Happenings Radical Communism Eras Farmers Salt Preacher Associates Bankers Acid Experimentation American Society

Author:Christine Jennings

“In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.”

Ifs Care Able America Community Tree Bears Down And Legs Miles Broke Apples Thrive Farmers Harvest Crops Old Days Harvest Time

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Kids Today Effects Edges Weather Heat Farmers Flood Percentages Crops Variables Drought

Author:Bill Gates

“If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.”

Ifs Doe Mistake Fields Destruction Inevitable Abandon Farmers

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.”

Humans Doe Whole Grows Process Farmers Small Parts

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

Way Wells Country Reason Progress Land College Republican Workers British Educated Reform Grants Farmers Educate Other Countries Jewels Consensus Well Educated American Success

Author:Charles R. Morris

“Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.”

Different Bigs Careers Novel Sky Influence Series Western Paradise Brown Farmers Epic Different Times Philip Getting Started

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.”

Ifs Beautiful Girl Fruit Locals Fantastic Farmers Frozen

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.”

Gone Cutting Violence Tree Grew Absence Shock Farmers Firewood

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.”

People House My Own Land Fronts Fields Discipline Six Farmers Acres

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.”

Thinking Knows Mean Artist Interest Land Connections Tolerance Enormous Treated Weather Dependent Village Do You Know Farmers Caution Scottish Hey You

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

“I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.”

West Workers Strikes Golden Corporations California Controlled Farmers Southern Preacher Tails Legislature Pacific Railroads

Author:Mother Jones

“[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.”

People Hands Opportunity Equal Critics Incredibles Producers Wicked Farmers American History Small Business Clash Equal Opportunity Financiers Louis Brandeis Tomas Jefferson

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

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