Quotes About Upbringing

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

Miami is not optimal for raising a child.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

I love my mum for raising us, and I love my dad for teaching me what to avoid.

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.

I am conscious now of the little boys I am raising, there are things that are important to me so that they grow up as healthy, responsible and respectful men.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My father ran a grocery store.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn't start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family's farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.

I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

Brothers Bunk Beds! That's how we grew up. We grew up in a small house, a ranch style home, with three bedrooms and one bath.

I didn't even know any cowboys growing up. When my friends heard that I was marrying a cattle rancher and moving to the country, they literally could not believe it. They started calling me the Pioneer Woman as a joke.

My father figures were all gang members.