Tre Cool Quotes

I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it - I didn't decide to get into it. I was brought into it by my mom.

Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.

My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

Without my parents, I would be nothing, so I'd like to thank them.

I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

Where I grew up, we had enough to get by, and we had a lot of love. That took me a long way.

When I was growing up, my parents would apologize when we didn't have enough money for something. I'd always tell them that it was O.K. and that I had learned to work hard because of them.

I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.