Fuzzy Zoeller Quotes

Farming is not for the feint of heart. It is fraught with the possibility of failure.

Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can't control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

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

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

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

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

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

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

My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

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

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

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've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.