Godfrey Hounsfield Quotes

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.

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

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

I grew up on a farm.

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

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

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!

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

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

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

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 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.

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

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

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.

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 take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

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

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