Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of… — John A. Hostetler Copy Share Image
The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Baptism into the church is one of the foundations of Amish faith. It was their desire to fulfill the believer’s baptism as… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“There are two things the Lord gave man over the other creatures. He created the ability for man to think. The other… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
“Amish parents often worry about their older children, especially those who are old enough to join the church but haven’t. The Amish… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“It is common for Amish boys in rumspringa not to dress Amish at all. Girls usually do, unless they go to parties… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If a mother is the heart of the Amish life, the father is the head; he plays a very significant role, spiritually… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“LaGrange County, near the town of LaGrange, Indiana. It is the second largest Amish community in the country, but to us it… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
“My mother’s side came to the United States from Germany and Switzerland in the 1770s. In 1785 one of my descendants went… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Growing up Amish, I was always well provided for. I felt loved, even though I don’t remember my parents telling me that.… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Where we came from in Indiana, the Englisch weren’t so polite. Then again, the Amish usually weren’t polite either. There was a… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
We grew up Amish, but my parents left the religion when I was a child. The Amish have lots of rules, and… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“Doing something well is a virtue. Even in school, children learn a concept thoroughly before moving on to the next assignment. They… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves… — Serena B. Miller Copy Share Image
“The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
“My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought… — Amber D. Tran Copy Share Image
“If she had learned one thing from Rebecca it was that demonstrations of affection or even emotion were few and far between… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
“I do not understand why it is so hard for people to believe that the Amish are capable of horrible crimes. As… — Misty Griffin Copy Share Image
“There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
“This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to… — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“Ora Jay’s father tried farming for a time, but it didn’t work out so he went to work in a local trailer… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“No parents wanted their youth to do this rumspringa wild thing, but they just did it anyway. Rumspringa, in an Amish community,… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
“Twelve to fifteen Amish families and twenty to thirty Amish bachelors lived in the West Kootenai. They were there because they wanted… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Montana. Ora Jay’s uncle lived there, and he often talked about the secluded place he’d found in the mountains, a place of… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“And work is what Ora Jay and I set out to do after we were married. We focused on our house, our… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“We were impressed by how the Amish in Montana had chosen this more spiritual way. The church services impressed us too. First,… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
![“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/barbara-kingsolver-200_amish_on-her-amish-friends-i-do-know-this-fami_1632538.jpg)
