Bob McDonnell Quotes

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

We've always been suburb people, and we lived in the East Bay when I was in Oakland. This time around, we're staying in the city, and my kids are getting that city life experience, which is something you don't get too much of in Alabama.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

I been doing music my whole life.

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

My background is inseparable from my work.

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.

When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off.