Alicia Machado Quotes

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

You have to find a man that's going to respect you. With my husband, I tell him all the time the fact that he grew up in a home with his mom and his dad and they were married until he was grown made him have certain values and certain respect for me.

South Florida was definitely not a bad place for my kids to grow up.

I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

Respecting women is something I've imbibed since childhood.

I had a normal, nice upbringing in Cardiff.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Home is really where education does begin.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

I was a homebody growing up.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.