Thomas Haden Church Quotes

The farmer had the right to migrate to where the rain fell.

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 drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

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

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

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 grew up on a farm.

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.

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

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

Farming's always been my business.

Pray for rain!

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

[The plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden.... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow.

I am a small business owner; I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

My grandparents were always farmers.

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

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

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.