Ben Nelson Quotes

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

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

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

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.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

I come from generations of farmers.

My mom is a country lady. She wants to be in the trees.

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

When I think of Kansas, I think of family.

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.

I grew up as a country boy.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'