Thomas Gibson Quotes

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

I'm a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn't come, I'd still be there in school. World War II saved me.

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I was raised on pop music.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.