Top 288 Farms Quotes & Sayings

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.

Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

The Death Tax destroys American jobs and cripples small businesses and family farms.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older... more sinister.

Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.

If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it?

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

In most places in the Midwest, the best food is found in people's homes, on their farms, at church potlucks.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.

I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.

So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.