RJ Mitte Quotes

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 ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize.

As long as I can remember, I had a strong interest in fishing, and my parents, even though they had never fished or camped, took us on canoe camping trips in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where I could fish to my heart's content.

My father's a fanatic for national parks, and every childhood trip was pretty much to national parks.

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.

My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her.

When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.

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.

My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.

My earliest memory as a kid was when I was about six, my dad used to take me and our Labrador Glen for a walk. We used to take a wind up camera and go searching for crop circles. We'd make little notes and I'd take photos of the circles.

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.

I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.

I have an older brother, and he was a very active boy, and we were always climbing trees together.