Quotes About Upbringing

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.

I come from a pretty positive family and positive environment, and in that sense, I'm very fortunate and grateful; that has kept me grounded.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

I didn't actually grow up in London.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

My dad really liked Didier Drogba and there was always a Chelsea game on when I was growing up.

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

I'm most at peace in my home when there's chaos, and that means that my kids had their friends over a lot growing up.

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

I have never had any animal growing up, never had a hamster, bird, dog, or cat.