Edmund Phelps Quotes

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.