Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

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

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

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.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

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

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

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

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

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

I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

My manager always brings up this fact that when I was 10 and first met her I said I never want to do movies and TV.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

We know that we can't undo our whole lives.

I can't say that I never will or would go back to the WWE. I honestly never intended on leaving until I retired. However we don't choose our destiny. We just live it.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.

You know, growing up in the cattle business, I know a lot about cattle.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.