I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.
I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.
It is in the nature of man to like what he is familiar with and in what he has been brought up, and that he fears anything alien. The plurality of religions and their mutual intolerance result from the fact that people remain faithful to the education they receive.
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
I think old school TV shows helped in raising your kids and helped in the way things should be done. Now you just see kids disrespecting their parents, you see kids cursing and all kind of things that shouldn't be done.
I was definitely raised this way. My folks are very grounded, normal people, and I wasn't raised in the entertainment industry. I just grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a very normal family. I wasn't a child actor or anything like that.
None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.
My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people
I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.
I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.
The respect I had to give my brothers and sisters growing up I think has helped me. I want my kids to be raised the same way.
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.
Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
My father's definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity - to be places on time, show up, and work hard.
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
