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“I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.”

Stills Whole Christian Felt Dad Raised My Dad Astronomy Southern Balanced Baptists Whole Family Southern Baptist

Author:Craig Brewer

“I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.”

Raised Texas Hawaii Georgia Kansas Kentucky

Author:Jeri Ryan

“I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.”

Thinking Women Effects Food Raised Memorable Potatoes Turnips

Author:Marlene Dietrich

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

Book Hands Pages Raised Casts Smell Invisible Dust This Day Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.”

School Young Raised Paris Riot Suburbs Barricades

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.”

People Trying Kind Children Art Artist Growth Lines Creative Clear Expression Musician Theater Raised Photographer Painter Hippie Creative Expression

Author:Jared Leto

“I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals.”

People Inspirational Funny Comedy Gay Raised Lgbt Hilarious Gay People

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I was raised around music.”

Raised

Author:Scott Porter

“I was raised as a Baptist in the Bible Belt of the South. Until the age of 37, I had never heard anyone teach or preach about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh yes, I had heard those scriptures read, more aptly read over, and had read over them myself, but I had never heard anyone try to explain this amazing experience or even give it any credence.”

Holy Ghost Baptism Spirtitual Growth Spirt

Author:Kimberly Eady

Source: This Is That: My Journey to the Holy Spirit

“I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.”

Raised Driven Arguing Doctrine Calvinism

Author:Paul Schrader

“I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.”

Years Body Age Christian Jesus Christ Blood Jesus Christ Catholic Raised Thirty Sunday Vegetarian Communion Thirty Years Blood Of Jesus

Author:Joe Queenan

“I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.”

Mean Church Catholic Raised Catholic Church Nun

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.”

Made Christian Raised Transactions

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“I was raised as a red diaper baby.”

Baby Red Raised Diapers

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.”

Feels Boys Events Raised Premieres Showbiz

Author:Isla Fisher

“I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.”

Facts Conscience Raised Baptists

Author:Octavia Butler

“I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.”

Thinking Young Names Parent Black Saws Raised Maids Nutty

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.”

Men World Comfortable Raised Males Attraction Profession Journalism Formidable

Author:Maria Shriver

“I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.”

Mother Girl Community Dog Perspective Role Models My Dog Single Mother Dead Dog

Author:Louis C. K.

“I was raised by a hardcore feminist.”

Raised Feminist Hardcore

Author:Joss Whedon

“I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.”

Thinking Community Responsibility Heard Taught Brother Clothes Raised Complaining My Brother Brothers And Sisters Crippled

Author:Ernest Gaines

“I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.”

Mother Raised

Author:Adam Sandler

“I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.”

Giving Hard School Together Mother Father Teacher Taught Raised Sunday Giving Back School Teachers Sunday School Sunday School Teacher

Author:Steve Harvey

“I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.”

Thinking Kind Guy Stuff Dad Raised My Dad Single Dad

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.”

“I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.”

Years Whole Mother Raised Whole Life Girlfriend My Girlfriend Single Mother

Author:Jon Hamm

“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

Way Made Life Is Used Mother Values Taught Mom Tables Raised Workers Destination Cleaning Brooklyn Subway Rags Family Values Core Values Good Mother Single Mother Pocketbooks

Author:Al Sharpton

“I was raised by a single mother.”

Mother Raised Single Mother

Author:Josh Peck

“I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.”

Mother Emotion Sitting Tables Raised Evening Kitchen Psychologist Inner Life Kitchen Table Dissecting

Author:Annie Baker

“I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.”

Knows Mother Strong Felt Roles Raised Who I Am

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

“I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold. Girls need to learn that they're allowed to say no and to speak up. This is what I work on in Africa with the girls, but the issue is global and I'm glad that women are speaking up and saying that we won't put up with it anymore.”

People Eye Mother Girl Speak Strong Situation Cutting Cold Difficulty Leaving Glad Uncomfortable Call Me Eye Contact

Author:Toni Garrn

“I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.”

Mother Lines Raised Strict Good Mother

Author:Alexa Vega

“I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.”

Thinking Men Feels Felt Boys Mom Raised My Mom Supposed To Be Uncomfortable Grandmother My Sister My Grandmother Be A Man Like A Boy

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."”

Said Faces Mother Turns Fall Asks Raised Actresses

Author:Laura Dern

“I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.”

People Trying Two Stories Regard Raised Storytelling

Author:Linda Ellerbee

Source: And so it goes

“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.”

“I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!”

Wife My Wife Skeptical

Author:James Ponsoldt

“I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.”

People Father Strong Ethics Raised Very Strong Work Ethic Spirited I Am Strong Strong Work Ethic Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Diane Lane

“I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.”

Men Raised Awe Muse

Author:Lou Doillon

“I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.”

Girl Father Heard Raised Daddy Amber

Author:Amber Heard

“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”

Poor Raised Grandmother Farms Dirt My Grandmother

Author:Robert Herjavec

“I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model.”

Feels Persons Made Matter Stories Kids Father Strong Difficult Fronts Listening Findings Models Blessed Raised Grandmother My Grandmother Difficult Times

Author:Rajashree Choudhury

“I was raised by my grandmother. She instilled everything into me. She taught me right from wrong from day one. I remembered everyday, being 4 or 5 years old, and walking to school, she would be like, Raise your right hand and stay on the right side of the street and make sure you do the right thing in school.”

Years Hands Would Be School Sides Streets Taught Walking Raises Raised Everyday Remembered Right Thing Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Nick Cannon

“I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.”

Made Would Be Enjoy Nice Car Paper Sitting Raised Drawing Meals Restaurants Grandparent Pencils Waitress

Author:Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.”

Thinking Mother Raised Our Family Abortion My Sister Adopted Aunt Mama Viola Great Aunt

Author:Eric Dickerson

“I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.”

Three Parent Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Percent Raised My Dad My Mom Ninety

Author:Brian J. White

“I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think people are raised by their parents. If you're raised by movies, it's a whole other set of problems. I don't think it's as simple as me saying movies are meant to entertain, but I certainly don't feel moral responsibility in putting this out in the world and being like, "OK, this is going to affect how guys make decisions because they see some of my films or whatever." I just don't.”

People Thinking World Problem Film Guy Parent Simple Decision Responsibility Moral Mom My Mom Gentleman Moral Responsibility

Author:Todd Phillips

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.”

World Trying Believe Helping Parent Moral Raised Obligation Save The World Being A Parent Moral Obligation

Author:Anne Lamott

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”

People World Trying Believe Parent Moral Red Crosses Vote Raised Obligation Save The World Being A Parent Moral Obligation Red Cross

Author:Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.”

Left Parent Religious Leader Raised Religious Leaders

Author:Dar Williams

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