O. Henry Quotes

I grew up on a farm.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

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 from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.

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.

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

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

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

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 a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

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

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

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

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 grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.

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 grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

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