Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Berman

This important legislation addresses two harsh realities: an intolerably high percentage of the farm workers who plant and harvest our produce are undocumented - and they are the most poorly paid and poorly treated workers in the United States.

It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.

They are serious farmers. This is a serious farming operation.

You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

Mike Cahill

It's a farming town. ... The rich people there are farmers - like it used to be in Sonoma.

This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.

It was surprising to have an organic farm as a winner.

We plan on using the tractor for general jobs around the farm and probably for some planting.

W. S. Gilbert

As a farmer, I want farmland to remain in farming.

Eva Longoria

Ive always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

David Shields

I've never seen a potato farm since I've been down here.

There would be thousands of farmers with nowhere to take grain.

This is harebrained. It's inappropriate to be farming that out to the private sector.

Henry James

This is a pretty serious-minded farm show. But it has to be when you're pulling the farmer away from the farm.

That's why Leah won the State Farm Good Neighbor Award. She's a great person, a great kid and a great leader. She didn't want to leave the team so she waited until halftime and said her goodbyes. It was tough (losing her).

That should work well for most of our farmers and ranchers,

Matt Blunt

Young people (should understand) how important what happens on a farm is to their well-being,

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

First we need a safety net from the farm bill. It would be a safety net that we would not use every year.

Even if we do try and pick up the pieces on the farm and go back into bananas, we're still looking at nine months before there's any income.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

Sandra Lerner

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

Every single flock at every single farm is being tested. We're doing this program to reassure the people that poultry is safe to eat.

At one time, I had an office on Music Row, but we moved to a small farm and I just like being here, ... I get up every day and go out in the trailer and spend a few hours writing.

There have been generations and generations of farmers here. It's a tradition.

We have 30 farms that have been affected, and we're still counting.

J. C. Watts

You hear from these farmers that they're not rich. They go out and work some long hours with hopes of someday leaving what they've established over their lifetimes to their kids and grandkids.

We all love the 2002 farm bill. We don't know if we'll get to keep it. It's a good safety net. There are things that could be corrected, but overall it's a good farm bill.

David Nielsen

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers or stomped it with his foot.

We have a farm there. The farm is not maintained properly, because we don't have (enough) people. So we can hand it over to them as an open prison and they can work there and we can get vegetables.