Quotes About Upbringing

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I grew up in a place where there weren't many opportunities if you didn't become a footballer.

We were raised with real values about the importance of work and respect for the people.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

I think there is nothing more important in forming a human being than your family. It is how you have been brought up and been taken care of that eventually is how you will deal with and treat the world.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

Christian music was such a huge foundation for me, even as a kid, and I grew to love Christian music not only because of the musicianship, which I thought was extraordinary, but because of the message in it. It was such a huge building block of who I was and who I would become.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

I was raised in the country. I haven't spent any time in the cities that people say are the best. I haven't spent much time in Chicago or San Francisco.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

I like going to San Francisco. It's close to where I grew up.