Childhood Environment Quotes

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

I grew up in a house full of books.

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity - is able to live a life of safety.

I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house.

I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West.

I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

I wasn't really raised in a religious family.

People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there were all these rules. My parents met through church and got married really shortly after, when they were both searching for connection and meaning, just like everyone is when they're 20.

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn't down with that.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.