Ryan Leaf Quotes

I grew up with very strong family support. My grandparents raised me, and my uncle sort of played that father-figure role in my life.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

My parents were strict but loving.

I always knew I wanted to have a family because I didn't have one growing up.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

I grew up as one of six kids.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

It takes a village to raise a child.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

My parents did a great job.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

It was my grandmother who raised me and guided me.

When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they sent my sister and I to live with our nana-nani at Dadar.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can imagine the little fights and scraps we had.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.