Kenny Chesney Quotes

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.

I grew up in a small town.

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

I grew up in a really small town.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

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.

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

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

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this!

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

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

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

I grew up in a small town outside Philadelphia and went to the local high school, where I ran track all four years.

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

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.