Quotes About Upbringing

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

I come from a middle-class family in Kozhikode, Kerala.

My sister Farah and me, we come from a very middle-class family.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

From where I come from, it's gutter, dog. I look back on that and I think, 'That's strong.' Without growing up where I came from, I wouldn't be the man I am today, a strong minded individual.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My parents are ministers.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I grew up in Minnesota.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.

I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.