It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Frankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.

I’m still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn’t suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus.

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without proper respect for the soil.

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

Farming is a profession of hope.

If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.

A good farmer is nothing less than a sensible human being.

When my daughter says, ‘Daddy, I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.

You are loved for the girl you are, the woman you will become, and the precious daughter you will always be.