Quotes About Upbringing

I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.

I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems.

I don't have any brothers and sisters, so I always relied on my parents to guide me or answer questions.

My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.

I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'

I have two sisters, so there was no brother to beat up on. As a result, I've never hidden from emotions.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

I was very close with my mother growing up. I have four older sisters who were an important part of my life. And I've been very close to all the women I've dated. I feel most comfortable around women.

I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

I'm comfortable around girls because I grew up with two sisters and a single mom. I feel very lucky for all they have taught me. They tell me to be myself, have fun, and focus on eye expressions.

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.