#farming

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#farming #grew #i #jobs #lot

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. ↗

— Gary Miller

#believe #farming #gardening #guest #guest worker program

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#country #equality #european #extraction #farming

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul. "At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #interest #lots #positive #reasons

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#come #family #farming #gambling #generally

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#banks #community #family #farming #hard

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#england #farming #implements #sydney