W. H. Davies Quotes

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

I've got really good friends and family. My parents, after 30 years, are still incredibly in love, still make each other laugh, which is a beautiful thing to see. And my brother and his fiance are completely happy, so if I feel a bit lonely, I just go and sit with them and feel their love.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

The country life near Manchester I really love.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.