Jack O'Connell Quotes

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 thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I've worked cornfields.

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.

Everything is work on the farm.

My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes... stuff like that.

I was raised to farm work.

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!

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

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

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

I grew up on a farm.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

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

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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