Justin Kirk Quotes

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

I love the idea of my daughter looking back at her childhood and growing up with a dog.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

I'm a country girl. We lived in a neighborhood, but at the back of the house, there was a little pathway with a creek and a trail. And we would go there, me and my brother. It was always an adventure in our imagination.

I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.

I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the country holds a very real place in my heart.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.