Trudie Styler Quotes

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

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 on a dirt road with brothers.

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

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

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 was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

I grew up in a family of nine kids.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

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.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.

I grew up in a family with five kids.