Farming Lifestyle Quotes

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

We grew up in a farming family, so I always ate non-processed food and fresh produce.

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

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

I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

I was raised to farm work.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

I come from the family of farmers. I am a son of a farmer.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farming community. I went to Iowa State University and joined Army ROTC while I was there and just have had such a phenomenal life. I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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