Quotes About Upbringing

I knew religion from an early age.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

My parents are like religious atheists.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

As I grew up, I was born and brought up with a view of, if you can get an engineering degree, getting a job is remarkably easy and that's the ambition you should have.

It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

I was raised by two moms in a town that was diverse and understanding of people. I remember when I got a taste of the whole rest of the world and left my bubble when I got older, I was just so confused by the fact that not everybody else was like that.

My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up.

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

Mobb Deep's music, we represent poverty. That's what made us. That's who made us. That's who brought us up.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.