Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.

I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

The respect I had to give my brothers and sisters growing up I think has helped me. I want my kids to be raised the same way.

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.

I grew up in Harrow, London, with two sisters. I am the middle child and a natural ginger, so fiery by nature.

I was raised by my grandma, had aunties and sisters in the house.

I was brought up by four older sisters, so there's trouble right there. We are Catholic, very religious, and that sort of colors my world and my music.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

I grew up with three older sisters and an older brother.

I have 3 sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right.

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms.

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

Being Orthodox Jewish is kind of like being raised on like network sitcoms.

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

I grew up in a family of six. Four sisters, one brother.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.