Backgrounds Quote by Bill Bryson

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

— Eric Andre

I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.

— Rohan Marley

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have…

— Beverly Cleary

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those…

— Alex Wagner

One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet…

— Roger Taylor

“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.”

— Richard Wright

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The…

— Jean Webster

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the…

— Adam Beach

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking…

— Luke Bryan

In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear,…

— Boris Kodjoe

I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all…

— Pierre Trudeau