Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

I'm very caring with animals. I think patience is a big deal, because animals are always jumping around. I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can't write my own music. Realistically, I'd probably do something with dogs, like a vet or something. I love animals.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and removing deflated basketballs from the intestinal tracts of animals are two very different skill sets.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking.

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.