24 result(s) for Farming Quotes: Quotes About Farmers In The 1800s.
""The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.""
""Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.""
""Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.""
""The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.""
""God made the country, and man made the town.""
""Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.""
""The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.""
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""The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.""
""I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.""
""No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.""
""I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture.""
""While tillage of the soil is held to be more honorable , the trader is looked down upon, the artisan is lauded and those who live by usury are despised.""
""Civilization begins with the plow.""
""Husbandry is the greatest labour of mankind. Let him learn to plough that would live; the farmer is the most necessary member in a commonwealth.""
""The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.""
""We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.""
""To be a good farmer is to have morality, that is, to be responsible to the world.""
""Farming is not just for farmers. It is for anyone who eats.""
""A farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.""
""The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.""
""The farmer is the man who feeds us all.""
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""The farmer's life is one of self-sacrifice, as he must always be ready to give up his own pleasures for the sake of his crops.""
""The first duty of the soil is to nurture human life.""
""The farmer must be born again every spring.""
