Quotes About Upbringing

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I never felt like I had a mother.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.