John Ross Bowie Quotes

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

New York City is an amazing place to raise children.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

We've always been suburb people, and we lived in the East Bay when I was in Oakland. This time around, we're staying in the city, and my kids are getting that city life experience, which is something you don't get too much of in Alabama.

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

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

I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.

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

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

If life is hard on you, dwell in cities