Stanislas Wawrinka Quotes

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste.

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.

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!

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.

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.

When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.

I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

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, 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.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

I grew up as a country boy.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.