Julian Clary Quotes

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

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

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.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

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

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

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

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 live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

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 gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.

I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.