Quotes About Upbringing

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.

I grew up in Ajegunle, which is like a ghetto and it was very difficult there. When it would get to the weekend, everybody was excited because they wanted to watch Man United play.

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.

The circumstances In which I grew up In Poland were not auspicious for humor.

The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents - they tend to be quiet. In my case, I was never interested in joining the police force, because right from my childhood I have seen the challenges in a cop's life.

My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could not study.

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.

Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.

My father was not a political animal.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.

I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I've always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women's issues.

I wasn't raised in a politically charged house.

I wasn't raised to make history. In high school and family, no one around me was politically involved, and few of my friends planned to attend college or even thought about it.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

I was very fortunate to grow up in France with amazing parents who allowed me to understand the importance of activism. My dad was a politician but he was also an activist, and my mom was a beautiful feminist who took care of others.