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My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
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.
When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.
I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.
'Alaska' was filmed at my family's farm in Maryland; 'Dog Years' was filmed at the summer camp I grew up going to in Maine.
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.
We started Marley Coffee from a farm perspective, and ever since, we've been doing things in a sustainable way and organically.
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
I voted with most of my colleagues in the U.S. House to reject a farm bill that would have cut $20 billion from the SNAP program.
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.
I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Gang of Four doesn't reinvent anything in 'Never Pay for the Farm,' but its members are having a blast with their second lease on life.
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.
I have wonderful memories of growing up on a farm with chickens running all around in the small southern Italian town of Torre del Greco.
Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.
I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.
California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
I can assure people of Mandya that I will be an efficient voice of the district. Farm distress is a cause of concern and I want to fight it.
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me.
W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.