Dinah Shore Quotes

When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.