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Farmer Quotes

Rooted in patience and hard work.

These quotes capture farming life through humor and honesty, from playful comparisons to a working season split between sport and soil. Related themes continue in our Family collection.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

Quotes by Philip Warren Anderson

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child...

Quotes by Phil Jackson

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...

Quotes by Peter Welch

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

Quotes by Pawan Kalyan

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I...

Quotes by Patty Judge

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

Quotes by Pat Oliphant

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

Quotes by Pankaj Tripathi

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived...

Quotes by Owen Paterson

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Quotes by Oliver Ellsworth

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Quotes by O. Henry

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Quotes by Norman Parkinson

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Nikolai Gogol

There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick...

Quotes by Mick Mulvaney

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Quotes by Michael Sims

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Quotes by Matthew Rhys

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Quotes by Matthew Scully

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Quotes by Masanobu Fukuoka

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

Quotes by Martin Yan

The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run...

Quotes by Manoj Bajpayee

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Quotes by Magdi Yacoub

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Farmer quotes collection include?
It mixes witty comparisons, like a farmer's barn attracting mice or actors, with honest reflections on the hardship and dignity of working the land.
Why do people search for farmer quotes?
Farming represents patience and hard work that resonates broadly, so people look for both humorous and sincere lines about rural life.
Is there a quote about combining two careers?
Yes, one voice describes splitting the year between playing ball in summer and farming through the winter.
Does this collection touch on financial hardship?
It does, with an older verse noting that of all the troubles a farmer faces, a mortgage can be the harshest of all.
What other collections relate to this theme?
Our Farm and Food collections continue the theme of land and sustenance.

For more on rural life and everyday sustenance, explore our Farm and Food collections alongside this one.