Quotes About Upbringing

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

I was born into a climbing family.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

I grew up on the Gold Coast of Australia, on the beach, basically.

I come from a blue collar background.

We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool.

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I grew up in Colorado.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.

I was born in a 10x10 room of a chawl, and we shared a common bathroom with other people in the neighbourhood.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I get my competitiveness from my mom.

If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.