Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

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.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

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've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

We had three cows and a goat. People from New York and L.A. are like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a farm!' But people in Tennessee are like, 'That's not a farm.' I've never milked a cow or anything like that.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

The Great Spirit has stocked your land with cows, ours with Buffalo. Yours with hogs, ours with Bear. Yours with sheep, ours with deer. He has given you the advantage that your animals are tame while ours are wild and demand not only a large space for range but art to hunt and kill them. Nevertheless, they are as much our property as other animals are yours and ought not to be taken from us without our consent or for something of equal value.

All presbyters, clerks, monks, converts, pilgrims, and peasants, when they are engaged in the labours of husbandry, together with their cattle in their ploughs, and the feed which they carry into the field, shall enjoy perfect security; and that all who molest tem, if they do not desist when they have been admonished, shall be excommunicated.

Three acres and a cow.

Pasture comes before prayer.

A nation that derives its subsistence, principally from the forest, cannot live in the vicinity of one that relies upon the products of the field. The clearing of the country drives off the wild beasts; and when the game fails, the hunter must starve, change his occupation, or retire from the approach of cultivation.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

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

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

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 keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions... but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.