Quotes About Upbringing

My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

My kids are jaded, spoiled, entitled as hell.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

I'm from Santa Monica, which was an awesome place to grow up. You're very spoiled being from California. When it's below 70, you complain. When it rains, you talk about it.

I think one of the biggest things is I wasn't spoiled as a kid. I got what I needed. I didn't always get what I wanted. But it's good to have what you need.

My children were not overly spoiled. They had to make their beds. They had to line up their shoes.

What I definitely don't like is people calling me or any of my siblings spoilt because we're not. We are privileged but my parents have never given us wads of cash or designer bags or shoes.

I'm an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.

I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

I like to give my kids the life I didn't have - they go to an excellent school; they have nice clothes, money for shopping. I'm quite generous with them, but they have fantastic manners - they're not spoilt.

I'd hate to have a spoilt brat - I'd think I hadn't done my job properly.

We were four kids and my father and mother brought us up with very strong values. We weren't spoilt at all.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

I probably spoke Spanish growing up about 95 percent of the time.

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

I spoke Franglais growing up.