Will Rogers Quotes

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

The cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous citizens, and possess most of the amor patriae. Merchants are the least virtuous, and possess the least of the amor patriae.

Farming teaches a brutal work ethic that serves society well when farm kids move to the city.

The majority of us don’t want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as straw-chewing figures in children’s books, we don’t quite believe in them anymore

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

My grandparents were always farmers.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goats. Now there are food shortages, so they're very thin. But traditionally, they are very strong and muscular. They grow sorghum, okra, a bit of corn, some peanuts. If they need money, they'll sell one of their animals or sell some sorghum.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.

I will always be a relentless advocate for our farmers, producers, and our way of life.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.