Lawrence Welk Quotes

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I grew up as a country boy.

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

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.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I come from generations of farmers.

I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.