All Quotes

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.
‐‐ Miranda Seymour

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?
‐‐ James McAvoy

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.
‐‐ Kurt Russell

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.
‐‐ Joan Ganz Cooney

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.
‐‐ Donna Mills

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.
‐‐ Nick Mason

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
‐‐ Ken Ham

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
‐‐ Jim Crace

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.
‐‐ Ken Ham

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz. But I never knew that it could really be a career. I didn't know any jazz singers. I never saw live jazz. I only heard these records.
‐‐ Cecile McLorin Salvant

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
‐‐ Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.
‐‐ Juno Temple

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.
‐‐ Paul Feig

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
‐‐ Bill Pullman

I was brought up in a way that was based purely on the senses. Everything in my upbringing was a reaction to growing up on an organic farm or to the emotions of animal cruelty, as well as the visuals of my mum's and my father's art - he was also an art collector.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I was brought up in a world of privilege.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.
‐‐ Jerry Leiber

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
‐‐ Naomie Harris

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
‐‐ Oleg Cassini

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
‐‐ Mika

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.
‐‐ Susannah York

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
‐‐ James A. Michener

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.
‐‐ David Mackay

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
‐‐ Naomi Benaron

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
‐‐ Harold Pinter