I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
Dolly PartonWhat I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The ‚take control of things‘ mode, the ‚be careful, watch out‘ mode, the ‚speed‘ mode – the ‚Red Bull‘ mode, actually. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s all part of what we are.
Brian EnoNeither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
Terry PratchettAs a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert CamusI didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
Margaret AtwoodI grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.
Beyonce KnowlesMy parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
Joel OsteenThe city is a body and a mind – a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.
David ByrneI try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
Mr. TMy folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.
Kendrick LamarI grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.
Dolly PartonIn the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles DickensI see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.
Richard M. NixonTime and the hour run through the roughest day.
William ShakespeareI was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
Billy GrahamMy mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.
Bad BunnyThis City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PlatoI was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
Adam SandlerFor me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl LagerfeldWhen I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
Mr. TI can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
Madeleine AlbrightI grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘
Wayne DyerThose people in New York are not gonna change me none.
Elvis PresleyI grew up in a funny way.
Gordon RamsayThere are a lot of good women in New York.
DrakeYou find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonAll the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George EliotAnd I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle ObamaMy upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
Jim CarreyFor me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
Madeleine AlbrightMy mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.
Nipsey HussleAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestMy dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel OsteenI don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
Richard P. FeynmanWith all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.
Stephen CurryBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonI mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?
LeBron JamesMy mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.
Mr. TI grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Adam SandlerMy upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.
Kevin HartWhen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonWhen you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.
DrakeI live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.
Lady GagaMy mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.
RihannaI was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
Lou HoltzI was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.
Vivienne WestwoodI feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndTo start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.
Billy GrahamI was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert CamusThe truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
Edmund HillaryAn architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John RuskinI realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.
David BowieIn my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.
Terry PratchettI didn’t have a father figure in the house.
The WeekndI was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
Michelle ObamaMy father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
Joyce MeyerHowever my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. RowlingMy mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
Mr. TSome believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan WattsYou see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
Kevin Hart