David Bergen Quotes

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

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

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

Growing up in Livingston, New Jersey, was terrific.

I grew up in a really small town.

I grew up in a small town.

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.

I grew up with a very religious background.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.

I wasn't really raised in a religious family.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

I was the youngest of four boys, raised in North Yorkshire.

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.

Yes, I do believe in karma. In my childhood I was a believer.