Simon Newcomb Quotes

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved from that house when I was less than ten months old. I have drawn pictures of it and shown my mother, and she was shocked because we have no photos of the place, and I was very accurate.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

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

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.

I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.

I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.

We moved to South Central Iowa to the farm where my dad had grown up, where my grandfather had grown up. The house was actually, it was a tiny little house. It was about 600 square feet and it was built by my great-grandfather. And that's the house I spent time in as a child.

My dad was in the RAF, so we travelled quite a lot. My memory's not the best - I remember we lived in Belgium for a bit - but I grew up in a village called Compton in Newbury.

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

When I was a kid, I was really quiet.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

I grew up a block away from Hell, and my pop-pop was a chef in Hell's Kitchen.

I don't really remember a lot of my childhood.

My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would play folk instruments and make music in our home.

My father was an air conditioning engineer and we lived in a three-bedroom terraced house in Langley before moving to a four-bedroom house in Maidenhead, where my parents still live.