Tamae Watanabe Quotes

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

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

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

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

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

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 live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

On a farm, you can get very bored.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

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.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

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.

We keep horses. I have to keep working.

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

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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

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.