Donald Sinden Quotes

Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways.

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

I'm just someone who grew up in a small village.

I come from a small village.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

The country life near Manchester I really love.

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.

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.

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.