All Quotes

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.
‐‐ Pearl Cleage

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.
‐‐ Jamie Moyer

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
‐‐ Raf Simons

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
‐‐ Anne Enright

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
‐‐ Cory Booker

I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.
‐‐ Emma Stone

I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction.
‐‐ Julie White

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
‐‐ Herbie Mann

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
‐‐ Harry Frankfurt

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!
‐‐ Blake Lively

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
‐‐ JoBeth Williams

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.
‐‐ Maria Bamford

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
‐‐ Mike Farrell

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.
‐‐ Fred Schneider

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
‐‐ Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
‐‐ Jidenna

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
‐‐ Jon Batiste

I was raised in the church.
‐‐ Kenny Rogers

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
‐‐ John Updike

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
‐‐ Max Lucado

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
‐‐ Inara George

I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
‐‐ John Cusack

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
‐‐ Dan Futterman

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.
‐‐ Josh Young

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
‐‐ Steven Levitan