All Quotes

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.
‐‐ Craig Brewer

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
‐‐ Jeri Ryan

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.
‐‐ Joan Didion

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
‐‐ Jared Leto

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I was raised around music.
‐‐ Scott Porter

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
‐‐ Paul Schrader

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
‐‐ Chuck Feeney

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.
‐‐ Grace Meng

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
‐‐ Spalding Gray

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I was raised by a single mother.
‐‐ Josh Peck

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.
‐‐ Jon Hamm

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
‐‐ Annie Baker

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
‐‐ Laura Dern

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!
‐‐ Amy Chua

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
‐‐ Diane Lane

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
‐‐ Amber Heard

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.
‐‐ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.
‐‐ Eric Dickerson

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.
‐‐ Brian J. White

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
‐‐ Dar Williams

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
‐‐ Paul Kantner

I was raised by the Indian community, and those families are still very close to us. We used to go to each others' houses one Sunday a month, so we got to know everyone well. Also, we love Indian food and can't get enough of it.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
‐‐ Dakota Fanning