Islands Quote by Gerry Cooney

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

— Melanie Martinez

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

— Tom Perrotta

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

— Bill Pullman

When I was 20, I picked up and left my entire family, who were in Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles on my own.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.

— Ken Howard

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like…

— Daphne Zuniga

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

— Mark Twain

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

— Anne Wojcicki

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

— Jean Shepherd

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that…

— Diana Taylor

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

— Cree Summer

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

— Karin Slaughter