Will Rogers Quotes

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

We had three cows and a goat. People from New York and L.A. are like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a farm!' But people in Tennessee are like, 'That's not a farm.' I've never milked a cow or anything like that.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

Farming teaches a brutal work ethic that serves society well when farm kids move to the city.

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.