Quotes About Upbringing

My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

My mother Sheela Sharma is an actress and father Subhash Sharma is a producer-director. But I had a normal life while growing up and always kept myself grounded.

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

My husband and I grew up in India, so saag and tikka sauces are very nostalgic for us.

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.