Jonathan Anderson Quotes

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

A lot of people who come to my restaurant bring their parents over because it brings back good memories.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I always drank chocolate milk growing up and I remember my grandmother would always have it when I would visit her in the Dominican Republic - that's when it all started.

I remember when I grew up and Dad would take me to kindergarten in the morning, and you could smell the chips in the air from the factory nearby.

I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

My earliest memories were in the back of my grandad's car listening to Test Match Special.

Meatloaf was a pretty big part of our family, and the meatloaf sandwiches were even more.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.

There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

I'll never forget where I come from. Especially my humble beginnings.