All Quotes

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
‐‐ Richard Attenborough

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.
‐‐ Robert Michael Morris

I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.
‐‐ Bill Moseley

I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
‐‐ Lakshmi Mittal

I came from a home where everybody had a book.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky

I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.
‐‐ John Zimmer

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
‐‐ Tana French

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
‐‐ Katy Perry

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.
‐‐ Graham Swift

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.
‐‐ Thalia

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
‐‐ Chuck D

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

I came from a real working-class show business family.
‐‐ Sally Field

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
‐‐ Audra McDonald

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
‐‐ Josh Turner

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
‐‐ Mark Indelicato

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
‐‐ Alan Sugar

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.
‐‐ Brad Carson

I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.
‐‐ Desiigner

I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'
‐‐ Telly Savalas

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.
‐‐ Jim Caviezel

I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.
‐‐ Suheir Hammad

I came from a very corporate environment, but my own style is quite approachable, warm, and very detail oriented.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and brought me to singing lessons. I had always been writing poems and songs.
‐‐ Cassie Steele

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
‐‐ Jodie Sweetin

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.
‐‐ DeObia Oparei

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
‐‐ Viktor Yanukovych

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
‐‐ Grace Jones

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
‐‐ Aneurin Barnard

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
‐‐ Abbe Pierre

I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
‐‐ Chris Gibson