Amir Khan Quotes

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

When I was little, my mom made all of my costumes.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

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 given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

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.

When I was a kid, my parents were happy to buy me clothes; they provided for me.

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins.

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.