Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

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

By using modern technologies, today's farmers grow more crops on the same amount of land, using less plowing and pesticides, and feeding more people.
Zippy Duvall

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth.
Psalms 104:14 (KJV)

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Bill Gates

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
Samuel Rutherford

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain Liogier

Only a new seed will yield a new crop.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand

When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.
Anne Raver

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
Ovid

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
Henry Cantwell Wallace

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.
Sonny Perdue

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