Quotes About Upbringing

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I've always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

I didn't have that growing up as a kid, people who gave back to the community and things like that. It was a dream of mine when I made it to always give back and be a positive impact and great role model.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

I've grown up being obsessed by 'Harry Potter.'

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.

Because I didn't have a Mum - she died when I was a baby - my Dad was told by people in authority that it was best for me to go to a convent school.