Katharine Graham Quotes

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

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

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

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine... I'm a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I felt like a typical kid growing up, and Lawnside is a nice town with a huge historical significance.

You know people probably don't realize this but I lived in Denver for 10 years as a kid. I was familiar with the city and what it had to offer. You know like any place it's changed a lot over the years. But that familiarity hit home for me.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.