Matt Rosendale Quotes

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I've worked cornfields.

Everything is work on the farm.

I was raised to farm work.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

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 watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

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

I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

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

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

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

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.