All Quotes

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

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
‐‐ Diana Ross

I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.
‐‐ Korky Paul

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
‐‐ P. L. Travers

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
‐‐ Deborah Norville

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.
‐‐ Julie Kavner

I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
‐‐ Susan Bysiewicz

I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
‐‐ Imogen Cunningham

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
‐‐ Burn Gorman

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.
‐‐ Mary Berry

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
‐‐ Ali Larter

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.
‐‐ Nick McDonell

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.
‐‐ Patty Griffin

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.
‐‐ Pink

I was brought up to reuse things.
‐‐ Annabelle Selldorf

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.
‐‐ Cy Twombly

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
‐‐ Alice Walker

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
‐‐ Colin Hay

I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.
‐‐ Erik Hassle

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
‐‐ Romola Garai

I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.
‐‐ Saul David

I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
‐‐ Imelda May

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
‐‐ Imelda May

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
‐‐ Lee Ryan

I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
‐‐ Anna Chancellor

I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it.
‐‐ Simone Biles

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
‐‐ John Wooden

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

I was bullied a lot as a kid.
‐‐ Sarah Hay

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.
‐‐ Keke Palmer

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.
‐‐ Kimora Lee Simmons

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.
‐‐ Peter Jackson