Quotes About Upbringing

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.

We went to Baptist church as a family, and that took up so many nights a week.

My dad's European, so when I was a little kid, I couldn't wear things like Nike, so I grew up wearing Adidas.

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

I grew up in a family of nine kids.

My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

If you're lucky enough to come from, I was very lucky when I grew up, I grew up in a house fill of love, my mum and dad had no problem showing love in front of me, which I think is why I want to teach my kids how to love.

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

which Gwen raised her children

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

Parents, they'll screw you up every time.

Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married