Quotes About Upbringing

Both my parents were painters.

I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say that, but of course we had the TV.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

My father came from a chawl and became a top star in Bollywood and worked very hard for us. When I look at my dad, I feel very good that my papa did so much.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents.

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.