Laura Miller Quotes

I grew up in a small town.

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.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

I grew up in a really small town.

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.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.

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

I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

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'm a kid from Nacogdoches.

I spent my summers as a kid in an upstate New York hippie town called Saugerties.