Amos Oz Quotes

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.

I love New York, but I can't deal with the cold and the small space.

I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

I’d rather be a lamppost in Harlem than the mayor of any town in Georgia.

I grew up in the projects with four older brothers.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family rental duplex built 30 years earlier.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

I'm definitely a city kid.

I'm a product of the city for sure.

Bathrooms on the plane are so small. Where are you supposed to change a baby?

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

We didn't have an awful lot of space. There were six of us born within the space of seven or eight years - I was third. I remember sharing a room with one or other of my brothers - at one point we had three single beds in one room.

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

I come from very humble beginnings.