Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I grew up in a great family.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

In my mother's household, hit shows like 'The Love Boat' and 'Three's Company' were 'not appropriate for nice lit'tle girls.' So was the prospect of staying up past 8:00 P.M. - and don't even think about talking back.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.