Howard Graham Buffett Quotes

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

I love working in the garden.

I'm usually pretty good in the garden.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.