Astrid S Quotes

I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

I grew up as a country boy.

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

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I love skiing.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

I ski and grew up skiing.

I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.

When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.

When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

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.

We had a ranch, growing up, that we used to spend a lot of time at. I guess anything from the ranch house would probably be some of my favorite childhood memories.

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

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.

You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette tape of Ella Fitzgerald singing with the Count Basie orchestra. And it was the first time, really, that someone's voice had really spoken to me, and it was just so pure.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I'll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch.