Quotes About Upbringing

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

Yes, my mum had a huge influence on my life and the love she had for me, the love we had between each other, did sway me to not do bad things. Sometimes they say the street raised you, but my mum did the raising.

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

My mom was really good at swearing growing up.

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She's Swedish, so she loves pop music.

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

I grew up in a household where sweets were not given to you whenever you want. It was restricted only to special occasions.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.