Farmer
One who farms
One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
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Farmer Quotations
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
James Herriot
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
Bjork
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
Jeremy Rifkin
Never answer a question from a farmer.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Gloria Swanson
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Martin Yan
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Bill Bryson
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Lenny Kravitz
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Roberto Benigni
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
Andy Garcia
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
Piers Anthony
When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
Tim McGraw
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
David Ricardo
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
Jerry Brown
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
David Antin
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
Stephen Gardiner
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
Tracy Kidder
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Lawrence Welk
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
Tracy Kidder
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Farmer Translations
farmer in Danish is landmand, bonde
farmer in Dutch is boer
farmer in French is cambrousarde, paysan, fermier
farmer in German is Bauer, Landwirt
farmer in Italian is agricoltore, contadina, contadino
farmer in Portuguese is fazendeiro
farmer in Spanish is campesino, aldeana, agricultor, aldeano, granjero
farmer in Swedish is bonde, lantbrukare, jordbrukare
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