Sam Donaldson Quotes

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

I grew up on a farm.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

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.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

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!

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

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

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

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.

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

I've never farmed before. It's unforgiving, it's hard work, hard graft - but I loved it, and I loved everyone I met who guided me along the way.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

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

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

Everything is work on the farm.

My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.

A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.