Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.
Henry A. Wallace

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
John F. Kennedy

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
Willa Cather

No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:4 (KJV)

Farming is a profession of hope.
Brian Brett

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

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Aldo Leopold

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Regard it just as desirable to build a chicken house as it is to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
Wendell Berry

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Cato the Elder

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

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

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