The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.
I grew up on a lake on the border of Washington and Idaho.
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
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.
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.
I lived in Minnesota in a small town.
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.
I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.
How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.
I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
