Quotes About Upbringing

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.

Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bread and Spam. I also thought they could get processed meals, because we never did, so that was exciting.

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were pretty conservative - but they preached mostly about love and caring for people, so I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy.