Quotes About Upbringing

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

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

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.