Jamie Wyeth Quotes

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've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Music is a safe kind of high.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.

Buy a Pig. A properly cared for pig is no less clean than a pet dog.

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.