A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

The interesting thing is I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and I had a very, very strict upbringing.

We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church.

I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

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

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I was raised as a Muslim.

I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

I was a very religious child.