“I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.” MenMotherSportsUnderstandingBrotherGrewMomLoversGrew UpMalesMy BrotherManlyUnrealityBabysitter Author:Carly Simon
“I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.” ShouldIdeasMotherGrewGrew UpDancingIndianClassicDancerTemplesBalletGreat IdeaMadras Author:Roselee Goldberg
“I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.” BigsMotherGrewBandGrew UpDetroit Author:Glenn Frey
“I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.” BodySchoolMotherGrewShapesGrew UpVisualsBody Shapes Author:Dawn Angelique
“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.” HomeKidsBeautifulMotherWhitePovertyGrewGrew UpParksTrashMobilePlaygroundsWhite TrashLoving Mother Author:Taryn Manning
“Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.” MotherHouseRecordsGrewGrew Up Author:Kevin Spacey
“My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.” MotherChurchGrewGrew UpSundayProtestantsPresbyterians Author:Rob Corddry
“My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.” WayPlayHomeSchoolMotherActorsGrewGrew UpTheaterExtraordinaryDinnerCanadaMy SisterHomework Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.” KidsMotherPassionFiveGrewGrew UpKitchenChefGourmet Author:Laura Prepon
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.” IfsThinkingChildrenAgeTodayYoungMotherTalentGrewMomGrew UpActressesArtisticPerformersYoung AgeNurturingSingle MomOnly ChildArtistic Talent Author:Edwina Findley
“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.” LongMotherStrongLinesInspiringGrewGrew UpVery StrongStrong WomenMothers DayLong LinesMatriarchs Author:Erykah Badu
“I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.” KindMotherEnvironmentModernGrewGrew UpPrejudiceGrandfatherBusiness EnvironmentModern Business Author:Lewis Schiff
“Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.” IfsMotherHouseSpaceSecretTreeCrazyGrewGrew UpGardenPropertySculptureGreenhousesSecret Garden Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.” IfsWorldProblemMotherGirlGrewGrew UpMy FamilyGrandmotherMy GrandmotherAuntOystersUnafraidSpeaking Up Author:Ava DuVernay
“[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'” TwoDoneAgeMotherDestinyBrotherGrewTenGrew UpWorthyTwo BrothersTwo SistersColts Author:Indira Gandhi
“I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.” ChildrenImportantChristianMotherFatherSocialBornGrewGrew UpTraditionCatholicWestEightGroundedInvolvementMother And FatherCatholic FamilyBelfast Author:Mairead Corrigan
“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.” YearsArtMovingMotherNamesGivenTermNaturalAbilityTaughtTheoryGrewCoupleDirectorsGrew UpYears AgoTheaterBreatheGymFourthTacticsPassed AwayNatural AbilityGodmotherAwesome Things Author:Erykah Badu
“I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.” MotherFatherTeacherGrewGrew UpAtmosphereSouthernBaptistsMother And FatherSouthern Baptist Author:Warren Beatty
“[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.” WorldWritingMotherNextLostHalfGrewGrew UpNext DayEmail Author:Trevor Noah
“I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then.” FeelsMightMotherGrowsChristChurchGrowing UpNew YorkGrewHusbandGrew UpLeavingIsolated1930sHarlem Author:Denzel Washington
“My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.” ThinkingMotherGrewGrew UpSophisticatedCaviar Author:Carrie Fisher
“I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.” MotherClassKnowingGrewGrew UpPrettiest Author:Carrie Fisher
“I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.” MotherFatherBornGrewGrew UpIntellectualPhilosopherCirclesPainterFranceJournalistRenownedFrench Philosopher Author:Matthieu Ricard
“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.” KnowsMotherStrongFourBrotherGrewDrugProjectsGrew UpToughYeahNeighborhoodKillersStrong WomenDealerGangstersThugMachoOlder BrotherDrug Dealers Author:Michael Che
“I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.” MotherReadingFatherGrewGrew UpHouseholdPower Of Words Author:Caroline Kennedy
“I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.” BodyMotherPoorGrewGrew UpMy FamilyGuitarBunchFourteen Author:Steve Young
“I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.” SpiritMotherFallBloodGrewGrew UpActressesTheatreWho I AmChairsFabric Author:Alicia Keys
“Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.” MeanWantedMotherFatherNamesParentUnderstandingCommonGrowing UpGrowingGrewEasierGrew UpNewsUnderstoodWho You AreGrandmotherAffectedGood NewsMy GrandmotherShire Author:Warsan Shire
“You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.” WritingWellsMatterReasonFactsMotherVoiceGrewGrew UpDeterminedSpokesGrandfatherMy GrandfatherMatter Of FactOrators Author:John Updike
“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.” IfsThinkingWayArtMadeBookIdeasAbleSchoolUsedMotherArtistPassionFeltInterestTeachCreativeEnvironmentSeeingPoetExpressionGrewFindingsGrew UpHigh SchoolArtisticBreathingTwelveHouseholdSculptureOutletsMy PassionSculptorsOutputVenezuelaArtistic ExpressionInstallationSchool English Author:Jason Silva
“This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.” PeopleWayShouldMeanChildrenTwoPastMotherFeltSoundCareersGrowing UpTeacherGrowingGenerationsPlanetsGrewMarriedGrew UpMathPassingPassingsFormerFantasticNurseMath Teacher Author:Sherry Lansing
“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.” MotherFatherResponsibilityTroubleStrangeSonDutyGrewGrew UpCuriosityDebtGamblingMixturesPresbyterians Author:Rupert Murdoch