Urban Upbringing Quotes

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

I'm from the street. We all know that.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It's a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud. Sports are big. You learn to fight.

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

If you're born and raised a New Yorker, you're probably pretty to-the-point, and you don't care so much about hurting people's feelings as you do about saying what's on your mind, because you assume they'll get over it.