As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
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Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.
Jay DeMarcus
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
Sam Donaldson
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As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
Joni Ernst
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The for-profit college industry is clearly the single-heaviest subsidized business in America. More than any defense contractor or any farm operation... So many of them are a horrible waste of students' time and of taxpayer dollars.
Dick Durbin
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
Orville Redenbacher
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Davy Jones
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I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
Larry Holmes
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I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
Chris Carmack
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
Harold Hamm
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I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.
Boots Riley
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
Garrett Hedlund
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
BusinessSmallFarmPlayMoviesWhy
I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.
Adam Lamberg
BeerFarmCheeseAlwaysOpenGoat
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
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I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.
Abbie Cornish
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I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
Pierre Laval
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My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.
Peggy Whitson
LifeWorkThinkWork EthicFarm
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.
Sharon Jones
MeFarmBodyNowWantRight
I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.
Nina Bawden
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I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Mark Strong
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I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
Lincoln Davis
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