Quotes About Upbringing

Let me tell you something, I'm a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards: Who's your dad? Who's your dad?

I grew up on Queen, ABBA and at the same time, Nityasree.

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

My mother didn't play being disrespectful to women. I was around grandmas and aunts. You learned pretty quick to be respectful!

I think women with children are better than men. This is only my opinion. Might be 'cos me Mum brought me up. I think maternally, they just take to being a parent quicker than men.

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

I'm not against competitive racing. I obviously grew up with horses.

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.