Jimmy Dean Quotes

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

Everything is work on the farm.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

We keep horses. I have to keep working.

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

I was raised to farm work.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.