Sam Elliott Quotes

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

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.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

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

I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions... but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

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

My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.