Quotes About Upbringing

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I was always told I was Daddy's little girl. In fact, we owned toy stores, and I would run in and want to get the latest toy off the shelf. My mom would say no way, and my dad would say, 'Get whatever you want, baby.'

I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

If you grow up on the good side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. If you grow up on the bad side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. It's not rocket science.

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.