Rick Perry Quotes

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

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.

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were too proud.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.

I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don't take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it's a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don't handle attention very well.

I watched my parents battle, work night shift, work two jobs. That's toughness. That's toughness... That's something; it all carries over from your parents, and I was fortunate to have both parents in my life.

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.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

I didn't realize until high school that the man wearing a cowboy hat on the poster in our garage was actually Ronald Reagan, so my parents just - it was how we were, I grew up on five acres of land in Flagstaff, Arizona and we really just lived a conservative lifestyle.

There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.