Jessica Raine Quotes

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!

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.

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.

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

In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.

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

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

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

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

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

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

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

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.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

Birth was the death of him.