Quotes About Upbringing

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

I'm going to raise my kids the opposite of how I was raised. I wasn't given healthy food, educated on portion control, or encouraged to exercise. I wish I had those things.

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.