Quotes About Upbringing

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

I grew up Mexican.

I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

Especially at Indian Wells, Miami, the hard courts are what I grew up on, so I'm probably most used to it.

Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.

I grew up in Miami, Florida.

When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

It's been a long time since I lived in Michigan, but I did grow up there for 18 to 20 years of my life. It does feel my home state.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

I come from a middle class family, so most of my content comes from home.

My middle class values are intact.

I grew up in the middle class.

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I was as middle class as it comes.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

I come from a very middle-class family.