Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

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 grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

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

We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

Bumble is a connecting company. It's your place to find connections, whatever that may be.

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

My grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.

The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.

It's true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That's what it's all about.

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.