Nancy Reagan Quotes

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

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

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

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