Chuck Grassley Quotes

I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

Everything is work on the farm.

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!

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.

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

I grew up on a farm.

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

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 loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

My grandparents were always farmers.

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

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.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.