Suranne Jones Quotes

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

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 lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

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've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them.

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

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 was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

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

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

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.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

I was definitely very much a country boy.