George Washington Quotes

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

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

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

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

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

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.