Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

My parents kept me very grounded.

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out. It's not that I think working all the time is the key to success. It's just the way I was raised.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

I'm a kid from Kansas, so J.C. Penney was where I got all my clothes from kindergarten to around 7th grade.

I grew up with all kinds of people.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it.

I came from a background where there wasn't loads of money in the family so I wasn't necessarily always the first to get jerseys but I did always make sure I had the England kit.

I grew up a block away from Hell, and my pop-pop was a chef in Hell's Kitchen.

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

Where I grew up if I swore my dad would knock it out of me. You just never swore.