Farms – Quotes

In America, Blackberry Farm

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I’ve had the privilege of staying at. Gail Simmons

Of all work-schools, a

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. G. Stanley Hall

I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o’clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season. Ezra … Read more

I never travel across

I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see its broad fruitful farms, its humming factories, its gleaming cities, certainly it is easy to realize that we have achieved unequaled material progress in this great country. Ezra Taft Benson

The farmer works the

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. Eugene Fitch Ware

I always felt that

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm… where you’re together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, ‘you take care of this’ and you know. But it’s hard. Ethan Hawke

Baseball is the president

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. Ernie Harwell

They were beaten to

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. Ernest Hemingway

He reads histories and

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing … Read more

In the evaluation of

In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they … Read more