Madeleine Peyroux Quotes

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

If you grow up and your mother or father is a doctor you talk about medicine at the dinner table. In our case we talked about politics at the dinner table.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare. In many cases, you wish it was parents, and in many cases it is, but in a lot of cases it happens outside the family as well - or, in some cases, only.

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their deeds. And my parents taught me through the stories of their lives. And I don't take any credit for the things that they did or the things that they experienced, but they made a great impression on me.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.