Quotes About Upbringing

People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn't a mansion. We didn't have a butler or a maid.

I come from garbage.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

My family is funny. I think you're born with the gene.

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

Hatton don't look much like a guy who thinks about commas. But he is a gentleman. His family are gentlemanly. Real classy people.

I genuinely believe that our daughters would be safe if our sons are raised right.

I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

I'm from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

I am from the ghetto.

Growing up Catholic has been a gift.

I wasn't allowed to ever have a drink or go into a bar, or even see a non-Christian gig when I was younger.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.

I was raised to believe that sex was shameful, that you should only have sex when you're married. I'm so glad that I didn't listen to that advice.

I know it sounds glamorous, but it was bloody cold growing up in a castle.

I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!