Quotes About Upbringing

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I remain patient because my mom taught me growing up to be grateful for everything.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

I grew up being very patriotic. My parents really love this country. A big part of what they love is freedom of speech... I'm fearless because aren't we supposed to be able to speak our mind?

I grew up as a Ravens fan, and I liked the Patriots, too.

I grew up in Connecticut, so obviously I'm a Patriots fan.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.

The respect from your peers - I don't know if it's because I grew up in the business, I don't know if that's why - but to me, that became the biggest thing.

I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.