Stella McCartney Quotes

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

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.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

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

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

I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.

Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble Arch in London and it was fantastic to be surrounded by fields and trees.

I am not really a city person.

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.