Local Upbringing Quotes

I am a typical Telugu boy dominated by all the qualities of a Hyderabadi because I was born and brought up here.

My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.

When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school.

I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I just grew up in Ajax with all the players from Ajax. We only had two or three foreigners, so everyone knew each other and knew the system.

I'm from a small town. I think that's what's going to help me succeed.

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.