Plowing Quotes

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I`d stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview {Texas]. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that`s a part of me. And my parents raised me to say "sir" and "ma`am"` to open doors, things like that. That`s the way I was brought up. Also, unfortunately, I was taught not to question too much. I didn`t really question my mom and dad. That`s usually what they told me to do.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I`d stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that`s apart of me. And my parents raised me to say `sir` and `ma`am,` to open doors, things like that. That`s the way I was brought up. Also, unfortunately, I was taught not to question too much. I didn`t really question my mom and dad. That`s usually what they told me to do.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford`s Good Solider" or something I wasn`t equipped to understand."