Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability.

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My parents were truly severe.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

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

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.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.

I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.

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