Quotes About Upbringing

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.