Quotes About Upbringing

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.

With my grandparents, it was almost like a hippie lifestyle. I could do whatever I wanted. If I didn't want to do my homework, I didn't do it.

Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was a good kid.

I grew up in Honolulu.

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

I was a very cocky and unlikable young comic. But I came from the hood, and that's what I learned.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I grew up on a horse.

Horses and dogs were part of my growing up years.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

My mother grew up around horses and exposed my sister and I to riding early on. It was very important to her.

My dad was in the army, I studied in army school and I am born in an army hospital.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

I had a nice childhood, even though I grew up in hotels.

People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

My mama was the man of my household.

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.

I was brought up in a Democrat household. My mom believed the lies she was told, that she needed government to raise her five children.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'