Farm Quotes

• I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Art
  • Connection
  • Creation

• Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • School
  • Manager
  • Workings

• A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

  

  Anne Bosworth Greene
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Farm

• I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Gift
  • Boss
  • Farm

• I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Marriage
  • Roles
  • Chores

• I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

  

  Joseph Mawle
  • Grew Up
  • Farm
  • Hunt

• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Help
  • Problem
  • High School

• People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Workers
  • Immigrants
  • Associate

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