Emeril Lagasse Quotes

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

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.

My grandparents were always farmers.

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.

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.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

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.

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

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'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

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

Farming's always been my business.

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.

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

The third type of African farmers may rightly he called the industrious class. Among them there are no slovenly owners, drunkards, or such as find the weather too cold and wet during the ploughing and sowing season and too warm and windy during harvest time and who neglect and diminish their sources of income by leaving all the work to a few slaves. Industrious farmers let no hour pass unused. Even in the season between Sowing and harvesting, when the countryman could sometimes have an easy time, they keep themselves and their servants busy: and when the weather is so inclement that nothing can be done Outside, the slaves under cover of a roof, in the barn or in their dwellings, will at least make ropes and cords out of old anchor cables, for tying oxen and knee-haltering horses

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.

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.

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

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.