Farming

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you cant hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. – Henri Alain

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. – Fawn M. Brodie

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. – William Jennings Bryan

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. – Cato The Elder

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. – George Crabbe

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and youre a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D Eisenhower

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. – Lynwood L. Giacomini

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time. – Edward W. Howe

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. – Edwin Markham

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. – H. L. Mencken

Farm policy, although its complex, can be explained. What it cant be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy. – P. J. ORourke

The masters eye is the best fertilizer. – Pliny The Elder

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. – R. Pocock

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. – George Sand