Quotes About Upbringing

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn't allowed a lot of it and I was a real chicken.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

I grew up listening to a lot of Chief Keef, Lil B, all that.

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

I felt caged by my childhood.

I grew up singing in a church choir.

Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and how it is growing up in The Bronx.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

My parents were Christian.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.

My parents weren't massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.