Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in the Bronx.

She's Jenny from the block! I love her music and her movies. And she goes back to where she grew up in the Bronx and gives back to the community.

I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

My mom grew up in Brooklyn.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

I was born and brought up in Ambala.

I am born and brought up in Kota, Rajasthan.

I was born and brought up in Vizag 'til 12th Class.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

I grew up in Brussels.

I come from this bubble in life - I come from a great family and went to a nice school, and I have friends, and life is pretty rosy.

I was brought up in a bubble to an extent.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It's always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can't help but get sucked into all the sports.