Robert Grosseteste Quotes

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

Farmers are farmers in the first place because they have the deep-seated instinct to raise crops, not to cut them back, not to leave the land unproductive.

Banishment from court alone will force the French nobility to execute what the English do for pleasure—reside upon and adorn their estates.

Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I've worked cornfields.

I work nights on a farm in the summer when harvest starts. I work on a civil engineering site down the Humber Docks where all the refineries are. So that's my day job from seven to four. And then I build engines at night.

I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.