Quotes About Upbringing

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

I was very sheltered growing up, so the only real beauty exposure I had was my mom. And still, to this day, she is my number 1 beauty icon.

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

I grew up at Real Madrid and played there a long time.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

My father is a very sweet man. He has led a very honest life. Perhaps it's the result of his goodness that I am doing well in my career.

With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.

I came up in gospel.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

I love the Lord. I did grow up in a gospel family.

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

When I was little I was into gospel music.

I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.