Carre Otis Quotes

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

I grew up on a farm.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

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!

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

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.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

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

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

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 feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.