Western Lifestyle Quotes

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

Cowboys, just like the word says.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

Those of us who eat beef and bread and drink beer … will have to drop his knife and fork and take up the chopsticks.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

I'm more of a rodeo type guy.

I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.

I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

I used to think being in the West would be incredible and then when I was nine my parents moved us to Belfast. I was initially amazed by little things - in toyshops you could actually play with the toys, the schools were more colourful and there were so many magazines everywhere.

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.