Agricultural Background Quotes

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta.

I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.