Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

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.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.

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.

When we used to live in a chawl during our childhood, we would play Holi with water balloons.

I grew up surrounded by two farms and their fields. My earliest memories are of our mongrel dog running around and cows looking in the window while we ate our tea.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.

I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.

I have so many memories of going fishing and camping as a kid, and my dad had season tickets to watch the Marlins - and that's where I fell in love with the game.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

I grew up in a house made out of mud.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.

When I work in the remotest villages, it reminds me of who I am... India is not built on 14 metros and 100 cities. It's made up of 600,000 villages.

Some of my friends wanted to do different things, but all I ever wanted to do was play outside with a ball.

As a kid, when the neighbors were out playing street hockey or tackle football, my friends and I were in my basement with the NES/SNES.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.