My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
Our country is an agriculture-based country. And slowly, we are forgetting our roots.
I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.
I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
I come from generations of farmers.
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.
I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
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.
I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
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.
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.
I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
I come from the family of farmers. I am a son of a farmer.
Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.
