Henry Paulson Quotes

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

Everything is work on the farm.

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I grew up on a farm.

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

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

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

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.

One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them.

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.