Alastair Cook Quotes

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.

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

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

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

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

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.

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.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

I grew up on a farm.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

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 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 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.

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

We keep horses. I have to keep working.

I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickings, or minds so well improved as my garden.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

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

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.