Grace Paley Quotes

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

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

Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

Farming teaches a brutal work ethic that serves society well when farm kids move to the city.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

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 lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

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

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

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.

I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

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

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.