Charles Spurgeon Quotes

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

If you go out in the woods in hunting season, your going to get shot.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.

I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

I had in mind a long career.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

[It is forbidden to] shoot off a gun on any unnecessary occasion except [at] an Indian or a wolf.

I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world's number one tennis player.

I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'