Quotes About Upbringing

I was practically raised with Christmas music.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

My grandpa was a preacher.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

I was born into a family of preachers.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

My dad was a preacher.

I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.'

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

Growing up poor is precisely as demeaning as you'd expect, and while forgiving bullies is easy, reliving those experiences emotionally is deeply upsetting.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

Growing up I always wanted to play in the Premier League and now I get to resume living my dream, which is playing games and I can't wait to get back.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.