Stella Young Quotes

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

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 grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

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 in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

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.

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

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

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