David A. R. White Quotes

I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.

Many Americans don't like the simple things. That's what they have against conservatives.

The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome.