All Quotes

I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.
‐‐ Roy Blunt

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
‐‐ Amy Chua

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
‐‐ Dick Wolf

I was raised not to talk about money. It was considered impolite.
‐‐ Jamie Johnson

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
‐‐ Glen Taylor

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
‐‐ Roy Rogers

I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

I was raised on Bruce Lee.
‐‐ Bridget Fonda

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.
‐‐ Drake Bell

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
‐‐ Gary Paulsen

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.
‐‐ Eric McCormack

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
‐‐ Lizzo

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I was raised on NBC television.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

I was raised on pop music.
‐‐ Jane Siberry

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
‐‐ Jane Siberry

I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.
‐‐ Lindsay Wagner

I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
‐‐ Cynthia Breazeal

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.
‐‐ Jeremih

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
‐‐ Scott McClellan

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
‐‐ Tobin Bell

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
‐‐ David Lynch

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.
‐‐ Eric Holder

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.
‐‐ Jewel

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.
‐‐ Elizabeth Berkley

I was raised right. I dig who I am.
‐‐ Scott Caan

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
‐‐ Jordan Peele

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
‐‐ Andrew Young

I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.
‐‐ Jai Rodriguez

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
‐‐ Liz Phair

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
‐‐ Kamala Harris

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.
‐‐ Tyne Daly