Bruce Coville Quotes

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

I grew up on a farm.

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

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'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

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

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

I grew up in a small holding in Staffordshire near Tamworth, and we had a few ponies and chickens, ducks and dogs and my mum used to do horse-riding lessons, but we moved to Birmingham when I was 13.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.