S. J. Perelman Quotes

Farming teaches a brutal work ethic that serves society well when farm kids move to the city.

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.

Crime doesn't pay, but neither does farming.

The manufacturing population still lived to a very great extent in the country. The artisan often had his small piece of land, which supplied him with wholesome food and healthy recreation. His wages and employment too were more regular. He was not subject to the uncertainties and knew nothing of the fearful sufferings which his descendants were to endure from commercial fluctuations

I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

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

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.