Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much…

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess…

— Miriam Toews

I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.

— Denison Witmer

“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is…

— Nick Hornby

My family went to a Mennonite Baptist church - they're pretty conservative Christian folk. We weren't on a colony or anything like that, but…

— Colter Wall

“Those Mennonite villages in Russia are my heritage, but not my world. The world I feel and sense in my bones is the bush…

— Rudy Wiebe

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

— Miriam Toews

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.…

— Dana Goodyear

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

— Badshah

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

— Peter Sunde

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic…

— John Legend

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless…

— David H. Koch

I grew up with a religious background.

— Alex Caruso

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

— Jenna Morasca