Early Quote by Katherine Dunn

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

— Jeff Merkley

My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in…

— Johnny Cash

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

— Jeff Sessions

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

— James Balog

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

— Do Won Chang

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when…

— Dolores Huerta

I grew up in gas stations.

— Uncle Kracker

I was raised to farm work.

— Abraham Lincoln

My grandparents were always farmers.

— Travis Fimmel

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all…

— Debi Mazar

I'm originally from Hobbs, New Mexico but moved around a lot growing up. My family had a ranch 40 miles from town where they…

— Ryan Bingham