Luke Treadaway Quotes

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

I grew up in a mud house, in a small village.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

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

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

A real liberty is found in the country, apart from all its political theory. The practical liberty of America is found in its great space and small population.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

I'm just a simple country girl.

I'm just someone who grew up in a small village.

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.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.