Quotes About Upbringing

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.