Ariel Sharon Quotes

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

Farming's always been my business.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Agriculture is in my heart.

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I know very little about farming!

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

Everything is work on the farm.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

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

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

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

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.