Josh O'Connor Quotes

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

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.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.

I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.

We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who was also brought over from Pakistan by her parents as a kid, devoted herself to bringing up me and my younger brother and sister, Haroon and Tabinda, and my elder sister Mariyah.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

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 grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

All men are creative but few are artists.