Martin Clunes Quotes

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

I'm at the barn six days a week.

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

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

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'.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

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.

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

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 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 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.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

I've always wanted to run my horse farm.

Everything is work on the farm.

I have horses.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.