Jim Hightower Quotes

Farming's always been my business.

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

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

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

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

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

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

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.

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.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

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

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

Crime doesn't pay, but neither does farming.

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

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

The agricultural interest of our country is so essentially connected with every other and so superior in importance to them all that it is scarcely necessary to invite to it your particular attention.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

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

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

My grandparents were always farmers.

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

I've never farmed before. It's unforgiving, it's hard work, hard graft - but I loved it, and I loved everyone I met who guided me along the way.

I know very little about farming!