Betty Buckley Quotes

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

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

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design me a house. I'd love to be in the countryside when I'm older.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

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

I have told all the secretaries and commissioners that if anything was done to open up our country for settlement, the government should see to it that more land per capita be given us because our country is not a good farming country and we should have to get our supplies from raising cattle.

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

I would love to get my parents a house somewhere or a place in the country.