Gareth Barry Quotes

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

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

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.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

My parents didn't have any money.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I grew up in the U.K., and my parents are both doctors.

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.

My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home, I would paint pictures in a similar style.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I was an only child until I was six.