Quotes About Upbringing

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.

The way people grow up, it shapes the way they think and the way they do certain things. I grew up with a mixed population, white, Hispanic and black. I feel all people are equal.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.

I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am now, to the athlete that I am now.

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

My mom keeps me grounded and all that. She makes me do chores.

Growing up, my mom and dad relentlessly emphasized hard work and a good education as key to a better future.

My mom and dad weren't married.