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“I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.”

“I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.”

Knows Men Kind Equal Men And Women Superiors Hippie

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.”

House Black White Tvs Black And White Bathroom Hallways Tenements

Author:Annie Lennox

“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.”

“I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.”

Ifs Light Imagination Four Crazy Middle Phones Cells Lit My Imagination Cell Phone Countryside Candlelight Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Juno Temple

“I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.”

Facts Mother Father Citizens Ordinary Workers Ordinary Citizens

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.”

Poor Childhood Violent Household Being Afraid

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.”

Bigs Asks Father Religious Powerful Advice Figures Praying All Time Dimensions Rulers Household Father Figure

Author:Paul Feig

“I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.”

New York Towns Small Town Upstate New York Growing Up In A Small Town

Author:Bill Pullman

“I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.”

Way Parent Party Dinner Manners Chips Dinner Party

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I was brought up in a world of privilege.”

World Privilege

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.”

Believe Important Kids Young Girl Powerful Opinion Class Environment Unattractive

Author:Megyn Kelly

“I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.”

Children Parent Environment Fronts Concern Financial

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.”

Differences Florida Climax

Author:Mickey Rivers

“I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.”

South Lancashire

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.”

Want Writing Different Moving Song Culture Identity Projects Different Cultures

Author:Mika

“I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.”

Mean Persons Country Deals Towns Scotland

Author:Susannah York

“I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.”

Should Five Taught Months Dollars Detroit Ontario

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.”

Kind Found Born Roles Models Casts Feminine Role Models 80s Dallas Dynasty

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.”

Trying Kind Stills Christian Jesus Church Teaching Caring Be Kind Caring For Others Christian Church

Author:Ronee Blakley

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”

Writing Century Late Tradition Complaining Nineteenth Century Disdain

Author:James A. Michener

“I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we're never going to see, we're never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It's like this blind faith in something that they can't show you.”

Years Believe Kind Stills Shows Situation Catholic Blind Eleven Blind Faith

Author:George Harrison

“I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.”

World Shows Home Christian Born Modern Luxury Show Business Modern World Highlights Christian Home

Author:Cat Stevens

“I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.”

Mother Lost Realizing Adults Shadow Guilt Holocaust

Author:Naomi Benaron

“I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.”

Used Ghetto Detroit

Author:Diana Ross

“I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.”

World My Own Rooms

Author:P. L. Travers

“I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.”

Littles Church Baby Sunday Methodists

Author:Deborah Norville

“I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.”

Want Art Hands School Artist Father Photography Photographer Want Me Art School

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.”

Inspiration Memories Heard Childhood Example Band Tradition Performances Excellence Charity Males British Variety Royal Choir Brass Happy Memories Brass Bands British Music

Author:Michael Parkinson

“I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.”

Cutting Rocks Mathematics Rock N Roll

Author:Bette Midler

“I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn't just a house or an abode, its people, people who love you and that you love. That's a home.”

People Ifs Heart Book Ends Philosophy Use Home Earth Mother House Given Simple Brain Love You Gold Pot Rainbow Wizards Abode Pot Of Gold Great Philosophy

Author:Ray Bolger

“I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.”

Mind Believe Left Fairs Fundamentals Workers Don't Believe Classic Free Market

Author:Clive James

“I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.”

“I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.”

Catholic Baptized Roman Catholic

Author:Billy Corgan

“I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.”

Feelings Hands Energy Enjoy Church Lord Feet Singing Hips Evoke Great Feelings Clapping Swaying

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.”

People Ifs Way Littles Actors Paid Mexican

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.”

Knows Mean Walks Know How Dresses Gentleman

Author:Brian McKnight

“I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.”

Boys Proud Good Boy Proud Of Myself

Author:Rik Mayall

“I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.”

Heaven Honesty

Author:E. M. Forester

“I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.”

Sympathetic

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.”

Thinking Believe Stills Mother Belief Achieve Example Flying Planes Crash

Author:Joe Bastianich

“I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Stills I Can Ideas Might Lying Universe Results Accepting Doubt Evolution Blind Accidents Revelations Free Will Human Mind Chemicals Idolatry

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly – the opposite is true – I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”

Believe Littles Persons Term Hero Conscience Opposites Drowning Nationality

Author:Irena Sendler

“I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.”

War Courage Forgiveness Bravery

Author:Chris Cleave

Source: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.”

Believe Important Saws Knowing Who You Are

Author:Anwar Sadat

Source: In Search of Identity: An Autobiography

“I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.”

Believe Humans Human Beings Core Shock Behaving Badly

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.”

Needs Believe Taxes Competition Preference Kentucky Scotch Whisky Bourbon Scotch Whisky

Author:Hugo Black

“I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me - I actually took my teachers seriously!”

Believe Whole Christian Teacher Training Scared Creator Compromise Servant Spoiled Public Servants Christian God

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

World Believe Truth Information Add Accurate Anthropology Information Age Samoa Accurate Information

Author:Margaret Mead

“I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.”

Trying Believe Long Whole Blood Approach Glory Whole Life Guts

Author:Ali Larter

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