Quotes About Upbringing

I believe I am strong mentally. My breaking points might be bigger than most players. I think it's because of the way I grew up with my two older brothers. They pushed my limits quite often - once every day, I think! I think that played a big role in my breaking point being bigger than most players. Not all players.

My mom raised me to be a strong person.

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.

My parents gave me a strong sense of entitlement. And I use that in a very good way.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

My parents gave us a strong sense of civic responsibility.

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom is an artist, so there was always a lot of emphasis placed on expression.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.