It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.
My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.
I definitely don’t see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn’t a part of my upbringing. I don’t have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn’t brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.
At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.
It’s important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
I am very much the daughter of immigrants. It’s both a point of pride and an essential part of characterizing my upbringing. We spoke Spanish in our house. We listened to Spanish music. All of the TV channels we watched were in Spanish. We ate mostly Italian and Argentinian food.
My upbringing and my daily day-to-day struggles and emotions make up most of my music.
There’s a particular quality that those of us who live on the border share; we can switch from being Mexican to being American in an instant just by scanning our surroundings. Not everybody has this superpower; it takes a very specific kind of upbringing to instill a deep pride in two very different cultures.
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
My parents couldn’t be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.
I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman’s upbringing.
I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer’s disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
When I was growing up, I idolised my father. I thought his ghost followed me around the house. I had been told how he adored me, how I was funny, just like him. Because of our lovely Catholic upbringing, I secretly assumed that he would eventually come back, like our good friend Jesus.
I always knew that my identity wasn’t in football. It wasn’t in baseball. I knew it’s always been in Christ and just my upbringing has always led me to have a tremendous faith that God was going to see me through and he would not give me too much that I couldn’t bear.
I had a totally different upbringing, totally different background, raised in Germany, small town, now I am in London taking care of 180 kids who think they are the one percent who can make it in professional football.
Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.
I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I’ve never tried to hide that; I’m not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.
I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.
In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends – who knew about my upbringing – I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
Vice President Mondale devoted himself to championing the civil rights of all Americans and worked to ensure that everyone has opportunity to achieve success in their lives regardless of their socioeconomic background or upbringing. We are deeply grateful for his service to the United States and the legacy he leaves.
My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.
I had a good upbringing, we didn’t have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.
I’m a video game enthusiast. I love video games! They were a huge part of my upbringing in their early form, when I was all about ‘Dig Dug’ and ‘River Raid.’ As they evolved, so did my music-making, and we just kind of grew up together like cool friends.
The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I’ve been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.
In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.
I think it’s a belief that you can learn something. That’s something that I really value from the upbringing I got.
You can’t separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents’. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.
It’s the upbringing at home. You can have education abroad, the best of things, but you can be a horrible human being.
As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it’s ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I’ve actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I’m desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I’ll find it one day.
What’s helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you’re always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who’d been together since they were in kindergarten.
Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.
I don’t like crying. I’m a country boy, and we’re the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don’t cry.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.
My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.
We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.
We had a very strict upbringing.
I’ve had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.
People who see successful young women think that there must be an angle there. It’s too good to be true that woman from a good upbringing can walk into a good job and be director.
I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
I didn’t realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
