(411 quotes found)
“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”
Samuel Johnson
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise”
Thomas Jefferson
“Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living”
Xenophon
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”
Milton Friedman
“Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.”
Indian Proverb
“One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“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.”
Jim Hightower
