25 result(s) for Farming Quotes From 1800s Farmers.
"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer."
"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."
"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 glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat."
"A farmer has to be born, not made."
"Civilization is based on the plow. There will be no progress without it."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
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"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."
"To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil."
"The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow."
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
"The proper basis of national power is the well-being of all its citizens."
"Husbandry is a noble employment."
"The farm, like the forest, is perishing by inches merely because nobody values it enough to manage it properly."
"Our farmers deserve praise, not pity. They are entrepreneurs in the best sense of the word. They are the backbone of our country."
"The first farmer was the first man, and all nobility rests on possession and use of land."
"The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all."
"If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, tornado, or old age."
"Strong regions make great nations."
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
"The farmer’s office is not mean, but great; both his heart and hand are directed by intelligence."
