Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I don't know why dishonesty has always gotten under my skin. My parents taught me to tell the truth, but come on, whose parents didn't? Well, okay, maybe Trump's. The point is, I don't know where exactly my particular obsession with lies and lying liars came from. And I admit, it's a little weird. Part of it may be that I've always been an incredibly literal person.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Did nobody spank their children these days?

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

As individuals, we are so different in our personalities, lifestyles, how we grew up, and our culture.

I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is my dad was an inspector in the police, so I was known as the grass.

I grew up in Long Beach during a transitional phase. It's a lot better now, but there was a time where it was the peak of gang culture. That's a crazy thing to be born into.

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

I grew up in Philadelphia.

I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.