Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew how to sketch. I knew how to customise. But I could never imagine it as a career.

I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy guy so were doing skits all the time growing up.

When my mom was sick and in the hospital, I did for the first time feel really bad that a lot of men aren't taught how to take care of other people very well. It's not as important of a skill for them as other things, in the same way that I really resent not being given a toolbox when I was younger.

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

When I was young, the way I was brought up, my mom made me feel comfortable in my own skin.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

They believed that any boy treated with decency, encouragement, and respect would grow into a model citizen, and they were nearly always right. Ninety-five percent of Xaverian boys went on to live normal, stable lives.

His grandmother had brought him up as a good Christian and someone who knew the difference between right and wrong.