Cree Summer Quotes

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn't have much connection with the outside world and couldn't see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that's when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.

I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I grew up as a country boy.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

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

It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.

I grew up on an island without TV.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

My parents hail from a village near Mysore.

People from the country are very simple and loyal. I like that. I prefer to deal with the campesinos rather than the political people in Lima.

I grew up in a house made out of mud.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.