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“My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.”

“I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.”

States Parent Born United United States Grew Citizens Grew Up Britain Egypt American Citizens Seventeen Great Britain Egyptian Malaysia Kuwait

Book:Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

People Philosophy Certain Belief Parent Millions Media Grew Grew Up Yeah Threat Cult Exposure Pragmatic Belief Systems Scientology

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.”

Stuff Parent Listening Grew Grew Up Abba

Author:Tammin Sursok

“We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.”

Way Wells Kind May Book Certain Left Parent Liberty Grew Grew Up Accounts Seeking Impression Atmosphere Related Lasting Lasting Impressions

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”

Parent Car Grew Grew Up Neighbor Hello

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.”

Mind Shows Kids Remember Parent Watches New York Grew Horror Grew Up Okay Annie Rocky Horror

Author:Gabriel Macht

“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.”

People Thinking Way Trying War Country Parent Sides Grew Grew Up Brighter Wrong Way Brighter Side

Author:Andy Murray

“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.”

Two Age Wanted Moving Parent Born Baby Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Jew Israel Israeli Homeland Baghdad

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.”

People Children Parent Class Rich Middle New York Television Grew Grew Up Raised Entertainment Middle Class Rich People Only Child

Author:Billy Eichner

“I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.”

Parent Interesting Grew Grew Up My Friends Raised Very Interesting

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.”

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.”

Whole Parent Acting Class Grew Grew Up Coaches Whole Life Acting Classes Babysitter

Author:Blake Lively

“I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.”

Grows Parent Born Growing Up Serious Baby Grew Summer Grew Up Towns South Beach Vacation Small Town Virginia Carolina Cabins South Carolina Appalachia

Author:William Gibson

“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.”

World Reality House Parent Television Grew Grew Up My Family Accidents Farms My Sister Bubbles Dishes Storyteller Family Farms Small Family

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.”

Different Able Speak Language Parent Grew Grew Up Phones Video Embarrassing Deaf Phone Calls Different Languages

Author:Jack Jason

“I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.”

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.”

Kids Choices Parent Influence Grew Grew Up Collections

Author:Ryan Lewis

“I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.”

Parent Grew Grew Up

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.”

Parent Grew Grew Up Cooks Restaurants Chef Food Love I Love Food

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.”

Country Parent Grew Grew Up Restaurants Pittsburgh

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.”

Way Years Littles I Can Remember House Stuff Parent Five Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Discovery Seven Eight Get Away Brothers And Sisters Dna Bathroom Listening To Music

Author:John Varvatos

“It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.”

People Way Kind Sometimes Hard House Energy Parent Grew Type Grew Up All Kinds Reckless Irresponsible

Author:Courtney Love

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.”

School Parent Five Grew Grew Up Moved Paris

Author:Jemima West

“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 never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.”

Want Girl Parent Grew Married Grew Up

Author:Camila Alves

“Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.”

Moving Parent Grew Proud Grew Up My Family Canada Scottish Scots

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.”

Sometimes School Found Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up High School Let Me Surprise Familiar Auditions Movie Sets

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.”

Ifs Thinking House Parent Rocks Grew Grew Up Agree Bills Hips Rock N Roll Charlie Haley Groovy

Author:Elvis Costello

“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

Stuff Parent Hours Watches Five Grew Dad Six Grew Up News My Dad Foxes Right Wing Ohio Fox News Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.”

Speak Parent New York Grew Grew Up Distance Miles Jersey Brooklyn New Jersey

Author:Jonathan Ames

“I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.”

Government Parent Technology Grew Normal Grew Up Towns Raised California Cowboy Physicist Laboratory

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”

Parent Saws Grew Couple Grew Up Understood Eras Holiday Uncles Aunt Aunts And Uncles

Author:Patti Davis

“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.”

People Knows Trying Stills Whole Care Kids Turns Grows Process Parent Effort Growing Up Grew Healthy Skills Normal Grew Up Tolerance Despite Awful Helpful Strongest Imperfect Psychotic

Author:Frank Pittman

“I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.”

Should Grows Parent Community Church Knowing Grew Calling Grew Up

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.”

Thinking Men Different Happens School Young Father Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Towns Eight Young Man Sibling My Siblings Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

“I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.”

Stills Different Would Be Life Is Parent Sweet Grew Normal Married Grew Up Normal Family

Author:Gwen Stefani

“I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.”

“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.”

Play Easy Stuff Parent Teacher Tvs Grew Mom Dad Lessons Grew Up Training England Musical My Mom Pops Piano Theme Motivated Portions Saxophone Piano Lesson Thematic Heyday Piano Teachers

Author:Gerard Cox

“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.”

“My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.”

Artist Parent Grew Mom Grew Up Musician Seven Guitar My Mom Bonfire Talented Musicians

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.”

Book Country Feelings Home Wanted Parent Taken Saws Poet Grew Comfortable Grew Up Library Ireland Bookshops Writers And Poets

Author:Michael Scott

“I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.”

Parent White Saws College Grew Grew Up Areas Like Me Confusion

Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.”

Years Three Parent Born Grew Grew Up My Sister Three Years Adopted Korean

Author:Katherine Heigl

“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.”

Feels Long Made Play Parent Christ Church Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Band Grew Up Long Time Instruments Musical Guilty Trumpets Baggage Musical Instruments Church Of Christ

Author:Gary Panter

“Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?”

Ifs Children Parent Grew Grew Up Elders

Author:Barry Hannah

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